Converse of object

• diagnose: In Leeds city catchment, the figures for diagnosed Tuberculosis are around 115 cases for the year 2004 ( DoH, 2005 ).

Adjective modifier

• bovine: The risk of bovine tuberculosis is higher in England than in Scotland.

• miliary: The resistance may be lowered temporarily by trauma or infectious disease such as measles, and skeletal tuberculosis or miliary tuberculosis may supervene.

• pulmonary: Regrettably, toward the end of his service, he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis.

• multidrug-resistant: This is further complicated by high levels of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

• drug-resistant: This family of bacteria has been responsible for many of the most serious outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

• resistant: After all, we do have strategies to face drug resistant tuberculosis, malaria and cancers.

Modifies a noun

• sanatorium: The fever hospitals and the tuberculosis sanatoria have now gone.

• bacillus: Those who could not work just wasted away, they had to be treated as tuberculosis bacilli which could infect a healthy organism.

• meningitis: Mycobacterium tuberculosis meningitis: a report of 12 cases and literature review.

• bacterium: Culture of tuberculosis bacteria will take 4 to 12 weeks.

• infection: Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections require treatment with combinations of three or four agents for at least six months.

• sufferer: In 1904 the Lanfine Home for tuberculosis sufferers was added.

Noun used with modifier

• mycobacterium: Tuberculosis is a disease, which is caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

• bacterium: Tuberculosis is a disease caused by an infection with the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Preposition: in

• Cattle: Bennett, R.M and Willis, K. The Value of Badger Populations and Control of Tuberculosis in Cattle.

• cattle: Badger extermination is not a viable way to control bovine tuberculosis in cattle, researchers in Ireland have decided.

• badger: Badger TB vaccine trial launched A £ 1m field trial of a vaccine to combat tuberculosis in badgers has been launched by the government.

Preposition: of

• spine: Figure 2. CT scan features of tuberculosis of the thoracic spine: illustrated on a transverse section through the thorax.

• lung: The tragedy of Chopin's short life was consumption ( tuberculosis of the lungs ).