Diagnosis of Genitourinary Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a major health problem that causes significant morbidity and mortality in the world [1]. The first evidence of TB in men and animals is provided by bone findingsmainly fragments of the vertebra showing the gibbus deformity of Pott disease [2]. The oldest examples of spinal TB was about date of 8000 BC. Because of the symptom varieties, TB was not defined as a unified disease until 1820s and was not named as tuberculosis until 1834 by Johann Lucas Schönlein of Wurzburg. He described the term of tuberculosis to define the affliction with tubercles.
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