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The tuberculosis adisease of what?
Tuberculosis (TB) is a caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, and spread person to person through the air.
Which cells are targeted by mycobactirium tuberculosis?
macrophages
Does Tuberculosis have a nucleus?
Tuberculosis is caused by a bacteria which has no nucleus. It has DNA, but it is not found inside a membrane such as we have in our cells.
What organs does tuberculosis damage?
The organ that is damaged if a person has Tuberculosis (TB) is the lungs.
How does tuberculosis disease effect healthy cells?
tuberculosis disease affects the cells of the lungs. They infect them with the tuberculosis bacilli making the host vulnerable to other infections in the body.
Is tuberculosis airborne?
The cause of tuberculosis is the infectious agent called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This is an aerobic bacterium that does need oxygen or air to survive.
To catch tuberculosis a person must?
To get tuberculosis, a person must be exposed to the air exhaled by an infected person for an extended period of time in a confined area.
Who was the first person to get tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is named for the bacterium that causes it, "mycobacterium tuberculosis", which was first "seen" by Robert Koch, a German physician. Tuberculosis used to be called "consumption".
How does one get Tuberculosis?
Passed on from bacteria. Either from a person with tuberculosis coughing on them or if they used a cup that someone with tuberculosis just used etcc.. x
When did Albert Calmette discover tuberculosis?
Albert Calmette did NOT discover tuberculosis. He was only trying to cure it. In 1882, the German microbiologist Robert Koch discovered that Mycobacterium Tuberculosis caused tuberculosis. However, the discoverer of tuberculosis is not one person, but many scientists who have described the disease.The first person to describe the disease was Hippocrates, a Greek physician. This shows that tuberculosis has existed for 15,000 to 20,000 years.
What happens when a person cannot produce red blood cells?
there is medication you can take to stimulate bone marrow to produce redblood cells,
What are the vectors of tuberculosis?
There is no vector for the spread of TB.It is primarily spread person to person
