Abstract
Tuberculosis is, by far, the most deadly of all vaccine-preventable diseases worldwide [1]. It has been revealed that tuberculosis disease was present in Africa’s first human societies at least 70,000 years ago and migrated with them in the global spread of humans [2]. The disease was also shown in Stone Age skeletons and mummies from ancient Egypt, 2400 BC [3]. It is thought that tuberculosis has not evolved from a zoonotic infection as previously supposed; instead, the disease and its human host co-evolved together, changing over time [2].
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Hatipoğlu, N., Arısoy, E.S., Starke, J.R. (2023). Tuberculosis in Children and Hearing Loss. In: Arısoy, A.E., Arısoy, E.S., Bayar Muluk, N., Cingi, C., Correa, A.G. (eds) Hearing Loss in Congenital, Neonatal and Childhood Infections. Comprehensive ENT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38495-0_37
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