Tuberculosis is one of many infectious diseases in the world and is responsible for a large number of human deaths each year. The cause is Mycobacterium ssp included in the tuberculosis-complex, there among Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infection with M. bovis causes bovine tuberculosis in cattle which in 90 % has a pulmonary location. Humans are infected mainly by milk from infected cows but also by close contact with coughing animals or by eating raw meat.

Tuberculosis is one of many infectious diseases in the world and is responsible for a large number of human deaths each year. The cause is Mycobacterium ssp included in the tuberculosis-complex, there among Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infection with M. bovis causes bovine tuberculosis in cattle which in 90 % has a pulmonary location. Humans are infected mainly by milk from infected cows but also by close contact with coughing animals or by eating raw meat.

Tuberkulos (TB) är en relativt ny sjukdom hos elefanter. Det är främst elefanter på djurparker i Nordamerika samt tama elefanter i Asien som drabbas. Bakterien Mycobacterium tuberculosis är vanligast orsakande agens men även fall orsakade av Mycobacterium bovis finns beskrivna. Typiska symptom är viktnedgång, anorexi, svaghet, hosta och slem från snabeln, men ofta syns inga symptom alls. Post mortem syns lesioner i lungor, bronker och trachea samt inkapslade granulom i lungorna. Det kan vara svårt att diagnosticera TB hos elefanter. För isolering av M.

Omkring en tredjedel av världens befolkning tros vara bärare av tuberkulosbakterier och under 2012 beräknas 1,3 miljoner människor ha mist livet i sviterna av sjukdomen. Det gör tuberkulos till den infektionssjukdom som, näst efter AIDS, orsakar flest dödsfall bland människor. Av de 8,6 miljoner människor som 2012 diagnosticerades med tuberkulos fanns 58% i Asien och 27% i Afrika. Mycobacterium spp. är ett genus med syrafasta, stavformade bakterier som ger upphov till kroniska, granulomatösa infektioner hos flera däggdjur och fåglar. De av mykobakterierna som kan orsaka tuberkulos grupperas ofta i Mycobacterium tuberculosis-komplexet, där Mycobacterium tuberculosis och Mycobacterium bovis har störst epidemiologisk signifikans.

Många djurparker erbjuder närkontakt med djur. Det kan innebära att besökarna tillåts klappa traditionella husdjur eller gå in till mer exotiska djur i anläggningar som försöker efterlikna djurens naturliga habitat och ge besökaren en inblick i djurens liv i frihet. Detta ökar risken för spridning av zoonoser, antingen via direktkontakt eller genom inandning av damm och aerosoler. I det här kandidatarbetet har jag valt ut fyra sjukdomar som exempel på denna typ av smittspridning. Jag har inte tagit med sjukdomar där smittspridning sker endast av djur som uppvisar tydliga symtom eller beteendeförändringar, då jag förutsätter att de kommer under behandling istället för att förevisas publik. De fyra zoonoser jag presenterar är ornitos, tuberkulos, salmonellos och EHEC/VTEC. Ornitos orsakas av Chlamydophila psittaci, en hos fåglar mycket vanlig bakterie som de utsöndrar via sekret från näshålan och via feces.

I Storbritannien är bovin tuberkulos (bTB) hos nötkreatur orsakad av Mycobacterium bovis ett stort problem, främst ur ett ekonomiskt perspektiv men även i form av djurlidande. Sjukdomen har dessutom en zoonotisk potential. Den viktigaste naturliga reservoaren för bakterien är den Europeiska grävlingen, Meles meles, vilken är en fridlyst art som en majoritet av befolkningen anser är viktig att skydda. Ett flertal åtgärder har testats för att minska smittan från grävling till nötkreatur. De viktigaste är så kallad kontrollerad utslaktning, vaccinering av grävlingarna, och biosäkerhetsbefrämjande åtgärder i gårdsbyggnader. Alla dessa åtgärder har sina för- och nackdelar. Den kontrollerade utslaktningen kan i vissa fall vara effektiv men har ett lågt stöd bland befolkningen. Vaccinering av grävlingar kräver fortfarande mer forskning. Man har i dagsläget ej utvärderat hur väl det fungerar under naturliga förhållanden, men de resultat som hittills har framkommit är lovande. Dock finns fortfarande en viss skepticism mot metoden hos lantbrukare. På senare tid har det visat sig att man genom biosäkerhetsbefrämjande åtgärder, med relativt små medel, nästan helt kan stoppa kontakten mellan grävlingar och nötkreatur i gårdsbyggnader.

This bachelor thesis is written as a part of the geography program at Stockholm University, Sweden, and the study was conducted from April to June 2012.Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne disease and one of the most widespread infectious diseases in the world with more than nine million new cases each year (SMI 2012, digital source). The disease is a major source of death and suffering in many places and the number of deaths remains high despite the availability of highly efficacious treatment. To control and prevent further spread of TB, the mapping of the disease spatial distribution is of essential importance.In this study, maps were produced that shows the spatial distribution of TB between the years 2002 to 2011 in the municipality of Stockholm. These maps allow an analysis of the spatial distribution at a local scale over time.The aim of this paper is to study how the spatial distribution of TB has looked like in the municipality of Stockholm the last 10 years and to analyze why the spatial distribution of the disease looked like it did. This study is based on the hypothesis ?drift?.

The topic of this paper is tuberculosis, especially in regard to the sanitarium movement and the efforts that were made to cure, ease and stop the spreading of the disease. The sanitarium movement was established in the late 19th century before any effective cure for the disease had been found. At this time the only treatment for the patients were fresh air, rest and good food. The paper analyses the case books for some of the patients at the sanitarium Lugnet which was situated close to the Swedish town Växjö in order to see if the treatment of the patients differed depending on gender. The result of the inquiry suggests that there were no difference in the treatment of men and women..

The purpose of this project was to investigate if retention of polar compounds that are given to treat tuberculosis, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and childhood leukemia could be obtained with HILIC separation. By varying different parameters for different types of columns the compounds were analyzed with the aim of finding guidelines for future method optimizations. To perform these analyzes three different columns were tested ? ZIC-HILIC (silica-based with zwitterions), ZIC-pHILIC (polymer-based with zwitterions) and XBridge Amide (amide functions). The results were evaluated with selected quality measures.

Bakgrund:Tuberkulos är den andra ledande dödsorsaken i världen. Värst drabbade områden är södra Afrika, sydöstra Asien och Ryssland. Incidensen i Sverige ökar. Patienter med tuberkulos kräver mycket omvårdnad. Omvårdnad är sjuksköterskans profession.

In Sweden, all milk needs to be pasteurized. Unpasteurized milk [ OPM ] may only be sold in a smaller scale directly from the farmer to the consumer. The law was introduced in 1939, to prevent tuberculosis, which poses no threat today. There are other reasons, such as keepability and risk of pathogenic bacteria, why milk is pasteurized. Despite these risks, many consume OPM.

The aim of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, it is the production of a historical and chronological narrative describing the development of the Swedish Red Cross Hospital in Pusan during the years 1950-58. Secondly, it is the investigation of the objectives and aspirations of the organisations and institutions involved and how they affected how the hospital developed during the wartime years and up until the inauguration of the Scandinavian educational hospital, the National Medical Centre, in Seoul. Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 Sweden, a neutral nation, offered to send a contingent for the establishment of a 200 bed mobile field hospital which was to be subjected to the command of the Eighth US Army in Korea. In the end a larger semimobile evacuation hospital was set up in Pusan where both UN soldiers and PoWs were treated, and it came to be known as the Swedish Red Cross Hospital. The decrease in and finally the cessation of hostilities in 1953 opened up for treatment of Korean civilian patients and such work was conducted not only at the Swedish hospital but all over Pusan, though initially it was not formally sanctioned by American and UN authorities.

  ?this Unpleasent klientel?A study on refugee care in Växjö between the years 1944 and 1947.The purpose of this study was to examine the treatment of sick refugees in Växjö in the 1940s. To achieve this a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The material found in the local archive and local newspaper was then put together and analyzed from the theoretical perspective, gender, class, ethnicity and social status.The result of this study shows that there were two main treatment wards for refugees, one that was supposed to treat women and children with active tuberculosis and the other ward treated refuges with ?epidemic diseases.? Foreign citizens were also taken care of in other words that were also not meant for refugees only, like the Epidemic hospital, which treated about 80 patients of a foreign nationality between 1944 and 1946.

The main aim of this study is to determine whether the monastery in Ny Varberg has been used as a hospital during its active years. The second aim has been to investigate weather the buried individuals at the monastery at Ny Varberg exclusively are deceased monks. Only individuals from the monastery's active years has been included in this study. A total of 16 inhumated individuals was analysed. Both men, women and children was shown to be present, as well as wide spread of children and adults.

  ?this Unpleasent klientel?A study on refugee care in Växjö between the years 1944 and 1947.The purpose of this study was to examine the treatment of sick refugees in Växjö in the 1940s. To achieve this a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The material found in the local archive and local newspaper was then put together and analyzed from the theoretical perspective, gender, class, ethnicity and social status.The result of this study shows that there were two main treatment wards for refugees, one that was supposed to treat women and children with active tuberculosis and the other ward treated refuges with ?epidemic diseases.? Foreign citizens were also taken care of in other words that were also not meant for refugees only, like the Epidemic hospital, which treated about 80 patients of a foreign nationality between 1944 and 1946.