What is the life cycle for tuberculosis?

Answer 1

There are few different kinds of pneumonia. So obviously the treatment and life cycle are different. Names of illness are representing the source of infection. For example CAP pneumonia stands for Community Acquired Pneumonia, HAP - Hospital Acquired Pneumonia. There few others such are Aspiration and Atypical Pneumonia.

Aspiration type of pneumonia can occur you inhale food, drink, vomit, or saliva from your mouth into your lungs. This may happen if something disturbs your normal gag reflex, such as a brain injury, swallowing problem, or excessive use of alcohol or drugs. Aspiration pneumonia can cause pus to form in a cavity in the lung. When this happens, it's called a lung abscess (AB-ses). THE IMPORTANT CHANGE AFTER THE TREATMENT IS TO STOP USING ALCOHOL, TOBACO AND/OR NON MEDICAL DRUGS (NARCOTICS).

Atypical Pneumonia is caused by several types of bacteria - Legionella

, mycoplasma pneumonia, and Chlamydophila pneumoniae - cause atypical pneumonia, a type of CAP. Atypical pneumonia is passed from person to person. The treatment is medicine.

There is another form called PCP. It is a kind of pneumonia caused by bacteria called Pneumocystis jiroveci. Most people infected with P. jiroveci don't get pneumonia because their immune systems are healthy and strong. People whose immune systems are weak because of HIV infection or cancer can get PCP.

PCP is less common than it used to be, but it's still the most common serious infection in people who have advanced HIV disease in the US.

•Bronchopneumonia

•Nosocomial pneumonia. This is another name for hospital-acquired pneumonia.

•Walking pneumonia. This refers to pneumonia that's mild enough that you're not bedridden.

•Double pneumonia. This refers to pneumonia that affects both lobes of the lungs.

Answer 2

• Stage one is the inactive stage when a person gets infected
• Stage two is when the bacterium gets active and the disease manifests itself
• Stage three refers to the spread of tuberculosis when the infected person coughs and sneezes.
• And stage four is bacterium entering another person's body through inhalation and the cycle begins all over again.