Image:TB in sputum.png

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Description
English: Photomicrograph of a sputum sample containing Mycobacterium tuberculosis. M. tuberculosis bacteria can attack any part of the body, but usually the lungs causing Tuberculosis. It is spread when infected individuals cough or sneeze, releasing microdroplets into the air that contain the bacteria, which others then inhale.
Italiano: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (colorato di rosso) nell'espettorato.
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Date

1979

  • 2006-10-27 (first version); 2007-12-09 (last version)
Author
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  • Content Providers(s): CDC
  • Original uploader was TimVickers at en.wikipedia
  • Later version(s) were uploaded by Bawolff at en.wikipedia.
Permission
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English: None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions. As a matter of courtesy we request that the content provider be credited and notified in any public or private usage of this image.

Licensing:

Public domain This image is a work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
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  • 2007-12-09 01:33 Bawolff 449×440×8 (347373 bytes) Transparency (just quickly added, better then no transparency)
  • 2006-10-27 02:46 TimVickers 449×440×8 (363902 bytes) Tuberculosis in sputum, CDC, Public Health Image Library (PHIL), http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp
  • 2006-10-27 02:44 TimVickers 449×440×8 (406322 bytes) CDC, Public Health Image Library (PHIL), http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp

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