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Nature Medicine 13, 263 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/nm0307-263;

Tuberculosis

George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Charlotte Bront|[euml]| and Frederic Chopin all had something in common—they all died of a disease known, at the time, as consumption. This year marks the 125th anniversary of the discovery, by Robert Koch, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the infectious agent of the disease we now call TB.

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