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Tuberculosis is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

Tuberculosis has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on August 25, 2004.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Kept
October 15, 2006	Featured article review	Kept
September 26, 2011	Featured article review	Demoted
May 12, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on March 24, 2005, March 24, 2006, March 24, 2007, March 24, 2008, March 24, 2009, March 24, 2010, March 24, 2011, March 24, 2013, March 24, 2015, March 24, 2017, March 24, 2019, and March 24, 2021.
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Tuberculosis.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

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