1.   Merseyside Coroner Roy Barter told the Liverpool hearing that she must have inhaled the bacteria as it floated through the air as vapour from a contaminated hot water outlet.

2.   And, other respiratory diseases, like chronic bronchitis and emphysema, may be worsened by oral infections when the invading bacteria are inhaled.

3.   Cases caused by inhaling the bacterium are rare and usually fatal.

4.   Infection begins when a person inhales a living tuberculosis bacterium, Bates said.

5.   It passes from person to person with a sneeze or a cough, the tiny bacteria inhaled or ingested.

6.   Mrs. Batcheller was hoping for another call from her grandson, to find out if he was among those who had inhaled the bacteria.

7.   The Florida man killed by anthrax inhaled the bacteria.

8.   A hallmark of TB is that after people inhale the bacteria and their lungs become infected, the immune system walls it off but cannot kill it.

9.   TB is usually spread by inhaling bacteria exhaled by a TB sufferer.

10.   The first signs would show up in one to six days after inhaling the bacteria.