Symptomata phthisis imprimis contagionepulmonum cumtussi,sputosanguineo nota sunt, sed phthisis non solum pulmones, sed etiam aliascorporis partes appetit, cum indiciis morbifebri,sudore nocturno,deminutione ponderis,fatigatione.Communicatur peraerem, cum homines activa tuberculosi infecti tussiunt, sternuunt, vel alioquinsalivam per aerem transmittunt.[4] Plurimae infectionesasymptomaticae et latentes sunt, sed una fere e decem infectionibus latentibus postremo inmorbum activum commutatur, qui, nisi curatur, plus centesimas hominum infectorum interficit.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, ut nomen suum indicat, estbacterium cum structurisfungorum (de Graecoμύκης, fungus) similibus, phthisem perficiens. Cum mycobacteria prorsus omnia immobilia tam aboxygenio pendant, quam ab substantiisorganicis, locis destinatis saepius inveniuntur, ut in pulmonibus. Mycobacteria tuberculosis tarde crescunt, a duodecim ad quindecim fere horae ad proximam divisionem necesse sunt, quo fit ut mycobacteriadormientia videri possint. Quin etiam inphagocytis bacteria haec perlonge sine detrimentis maneant.
Terrarum orbe contagio fere immense est: hominum per mycobacterium tuberculosis infecta est circiter tertia pars, ex eis centesimo quindecim in cursibus vitarum suarum in tuberculosem activam incidunt. Praevalentia altissmima inAfrica sub-Saharana est (vid. imaginem). Incrementum formarum cum resistentiis multa contra medicamenta observatur. Observatur quoque incrementumincidentiae incrementum numerorum casuum nuntiatorum.
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