Acting against tuberculous infection or disease; effective in treating tuberculosis.
From anti- (against) + tuberculous (characterized by tuberculosis, from Latin tuberculum + -ous, full of). This medical adjective is a variant form emphasizing the tubercular condition.
Antituberculous therapy completely changed human history—in 1900, TB killed one in seven people; today, it's preventable and treatable, though it still kills about 1.3 million annually worldwide.
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