Open AccessThe history of tuberculosis: from mummies to multidrug resistance across the Royal Touch
Author(s) -
Cristina Morazzoni,
Massimo DePaschale
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
microbiologia medica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2280-6423
pISSN - 1120-0146
DOI - 10.4081/mm.2016.5782
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , disease , history , resistance (ecology) , medicine , genealogy , biology , pathology , ecology
Writing about a complete history of tuberculosis would obviously require more than the space we have available; therefore, this brief manuscript is just aimed to summarize some of the most curious and potentially less known aspects of this long lasting disease that likely started to accompany the mankind from the very beginning and still is among the most worrying illness affecting the poorest classes worldwide