The reason goes back to the Celts and their superstition that cheese could cause tuberculosis.

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis travel through the air, such as in a cough or sneeze.

Among its subgroup Mycobacteriaceae are the species which cause tuberculosis and leprosy.

Tuberculin is a substance based on the pathogen that causes tuberculosis.

This enzyme is present in species of Mycobacterium that cause tuberculosis.

One concern, however, has been the appearance of resistant forms of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis.

It is related to the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, and some of the same antibiotics are used to attack both diseases.

Though related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, it does not cause tuberculosis.

Robert Koch isolated from the bacteria that cause tuberculosis in 1890, might lead to a similar type of reaction.

These postulates were first used in the discovery that Mycobacteria species cause tuberculosis.