Tuberculosis seems old fashioned, a disease from 19th century novels, but it continues to infect Americans every year, and medical coders address it in all specialties. Outbreaks in dense populations without adequate healthcare feed the spread of the disease. Tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified in 1882 by Dr. Robert Koch. The disease was endemic and, […]
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