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Tuberculosis is the disease caused by infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is characterised by formation of tubercles and caseous necrosis in the tissues of any organ.

In man, the lung is the major seat of infection and the usual portal through which infection reaches other organs.

Patients with other species of mycobacterium are classed as atypical mycobacterial infections.

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