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Dr. D.S. Merchant's Articles in Disease & Illness

  • Tuberculosis (TB) Part I
    Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one infections disease killer worldwide. The World Health Care Organization estimates that 2 billion people have latent TB, while another 3 million people worldwide die each year due to TB.
  • Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Vs Tuberculosis
    Sarcoidosis with a prevalence of 10/100,000, is a multisystem disease of unknown etiology characterized by non-caseating granulomas.i It involves virtually any organ, lungs, thoracic lymph nodes, skin liver, central nervous system, eyes, kidneys and heart, and is more common in Afro-Americans. There is no sex predilection but some manifestations of the disease are more common is females. ² It begins in the third or fourth decade and tends to be rare in children and the elderly.

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