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The End of Tuberculosis?
Gumpert, Martin | January 4, 1947 issue

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Streptomycin is an anti-bacterial agent which possesses the unique ability to inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vivo, both experimentally and clinically. The manifestations of tuberculosis may be suppressed both in experimental animals and in man, with at least temporary retardation of the pathological processes as judged by objective criteria. Tuberculosis has been slowly but steadily declining in the U.S. for several decades. our country within a generation." The death rate from the disease in the U.S. has been lowered four-fifths since the turn of the century from about 200 to about 40 per 100,000.

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TUBERCULOSIS -- Treatment; UNITED States -- Social conditions; MYCOBACTERIAL diseases; MORTALITY -- Statistics; MYCOBACTERIA; UNITED States
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