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Tuberculosis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: , Tuberculosis Classification and external resources Chest of a patient suffering from tuberculosis - - - -   Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or Tuberculosis) is a common and deadly caused by , mainly . Tuberculosis most commonly attacks the lungs (as TB) but can also affect the , the , the , the and even the . Other mycobacteria such as , and can also cause tuberculosis, but these species do not usually infect healthy adults. Over one-third of the has been infected by the TB bacterium, and new infections occur at a rate of one per second. Not everyone infected develops the full-blown disease; , latent TB infection is most common. However, one in ten latent infections will progress to active TB disease, which, if left untreated, kills more than half of its victims. In 2004, mortality and morbidity statistics included 14.6 million chronic active TB cases, 8.9 million new cases, and 1.6 million deaths, mostly in . In addition, a rising number of people in the are contracting tuberculosis because their are compromised by or /. The rise in HIV infections and the neglect of TB control programs have enabled a resurgence of tuberculosis. The emergence of strains has also contributed to this new epidemic with, from 2000 to 2004, 20% of TB cases being resistant to standard treatments and 2% resistant...