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Yes, HIV patients are less resistant to TB. TB testing and treatment are critical for patients with AIDS.
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Why is it more difficult to identify hiv-tb co-infections among hiv patients than to identify them among tb patients?
because in hiv infections there is diminution of immunity..so the manifestations of tb is less...even the mantoux shows sometimes negative
What is responsible for the evolution of TB strains that are resistant to multiple drugs?
patients not being able to get treat
Why has TB returned to the UK?
One factor in the rising TB trend in both the developed and the developing world is HIV infection, which weakens the immune system. One third of deaths of those who are HIV-positive are TB related. Those with HIV are 100 times more likely to develop TB than other members of the population. Other people who are at risk from the disease include those with diabetes, the malnourished, alcoholics, and IV drug users. Another aspect in the resurgence of the disease is the development of drug resistant strains which now affect up to 50 million people. These strains can be created by bad medical practice such as over-prescribing antibiotics or patients not taking the drugs long enough to get rid of the disease. Instead this encourages the bacteria to become tougher. Treating patients with drug resistant TB is beyond the pocket of many developing countries. The cost of treatment can rise from $2000 per patient with non-resistant TB to $250,000 for multi-drug resistant TB. The multi drug resistant strains are often fatal and have mortality rates that are comparable with those which existed before the development of antibiotics. Some experts also blame lax public health procedures at immigration control for the rise in TB in developed countries. Visitors arriving from less developed countries where TB is more prevalent may get little medical attention even if they admit to having the disease. Among black Africans in Britain TB rose by over 100% between the end of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Why must healthcare workers be concerned about tuberculosis?
There are multiple reasons: -TB is highly contagious and can be spread from the patient to the healthcare worker and from the healthcare work to other patients. -It is spread through the air as small particles. -TB treatment MUST be completed fully. In other words, the medication used to treat TB has become less effective in treating the pathogen because patients are not taking the medication properly. This has lead to highly resistant strains of TB. -Highly resistant strains pose a higher risk for infecting healthcare works and other patients. *Patients should take medication the same time every day and for the full amount of time it is prescribed.
If you have TB will blood tested be HIV positive?
No. It would be TB positive.
Drug resistant TB is transmitted in the same way of regular TB?
Yes.
Is bone disease is the number one killer of HIV?
TB is the number one killer of people with HIV, not bone disease.Bone disease is not the number one killer of people with HIV, TB is.
Do you have to be HIV positive or homeless to get tb?
No. The homeless and HIV+ populations are infected with TB at higher rates because of environmental and physical susceptibility to the disease. However, TB is a contagious infection and individuals with active TB infection who are not in treatment should be avoided.
What is the increasing resistance of M tuberculosis to streptomycin is most likely due to?
An estimated 95% of TB sufferers are in developing countries with the advent of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world in the number of TB sufferers will increase.
Why is the tuberculosis vaccine not routinely offered to patients?
There isn't a vaccine for TB. There's a TB test. And I agree, patients should be tested. Permission has to be given by the patients to conduct the test.
What does MDR-TB stand for?
Multi-Drug resistant tuberculosis
What is the most common disease in Brazil?
AIDs or HIV or TB
