What is the target organ for typhoid?

Answer 1

TB enters the body through the lungs but can also affect other parts of your body, including your kidneys, spine or brain.
When TB occurs outside your lungs, signs and symptoms vary according to the organs involved. For example, tuberculosis of the spine may give you Back pain, and tuberculosis in your kidneys might cause blood in your urine

Answer 2

TB most often affects the lungs. However it can also affect almost any other body organ, such as the kidneys or the spine.

Answer 3

Tuberculosis can infect many organs in the body; it is not confined to the lungs.

Answer 4

PTB or pulmonary tuberculosis. Pulmonary means lungs. So basically, lungs is the affected part of the body if you have tuberculosis.

Answer 5

Lungs. But it causes the lungs to "stick" to other organs close to them

Answer 6

Tuberculosis (Known years ago as consumption) almost always affects the lungs.

Answer 7

It famously affects the lungs, but my I know someone who had an attack on her kidneys.

Answer 8

TB can affect other organs besides the lungs such as the spine and kidneys

Answer 9

Tuberculosis mainly attacks the lungs, but it spreads, if it's not treated, to the other organs.

Answer 10

Tuberculosis affects the lungs.