CV Lattes
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Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease whose main etiological agent is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. According to the WHO, cases of death from TB exceed the cases of HIV in the world, about 1.3 million a year. This chronic disease is often asymptomatic, coming to manifest itself only many years after the individual has been infected, thus estimating that about 1/4 of the world populatio…