Do not capitalize diseases and other medical terms unless a proper noun is part of the name or the disease is an acronym. tuberculosis; Reye's syndrome; AIDS; bird flu; Asperger's syndrome. Capitalize “Internet” and “World Wide Web” but not “web” or “website.”

Do medical conditions need to be capitalized?

Do not capitalize the names of conditions, syndromes and the like, but capitalize a personal name that forms part of such a term: diabetes insipidus. Down syndrome.

How do you use tuberculosis in a sentence?

The hospital where he was treated had no community tuberculosis services. We do not know how much of an increase in poverty there was due to the tuberculosis in the families of the index subjects. It also makes clear that tuberculosis is still a problem and an important differential diagnosis in the older population.