Tuberculosis

Fibrous Connective Tissue in the Lungs

the info available to address people is to let them know that T B is a killer

Tuberculosis peritonitis causes ascites.

TB is caused by infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Sinusitis is a symptom which manifests usually with upper respiratory tract infections.

Common cold is a upper respiratory tract infection of viral origin, usually caused by rhinovirus

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

A small amount of serum is injected just under the skin on your inner forearm. Three days later, you go back for it to be "read." Basically, it is a positive reading if the raised and red bump is above a certain size. At that point, you will get an xray evaluation of your lungs and medication to cure the infection.

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.

it means you were exposed to the virus, you need to have a chest x-ray to confirm a TB test. If the virus is active a sputum sample is needed to confirm a diagnosis of TB

It is a virus which is present in everybody and gets active when the person's immune system gets unhealthy.

In the United States, 0.0042% of the population has tuberculosis.

what is the mortality rate of pulmonary tuberculosis in Philippines

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is spread by airborne droplets from infected people. These can then be inhaled by others. The infection begins by reaching the pulmonary alveoli where the bacteria is then taken up by macrophages in the lungs. The primary site of infection is referred to as the Ghon focus. Dendritic cells can pick up the bacteria and transport them to other parts of the body, leading to Miliary tuberculosis althought the bacteria cannot replicate within the dendritic cells. Standard unsupervised treatment of TB: 1st 2 months: Rifater (rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide) 65kg - 6 tabs Ethambutol 15mg/kg Next 2 months: Rifanah (rifampicin, isoniazid) 50kg 2 x 300mg tabs Mycobacterium tuberculosis is spread by airborne droplets from infected people. These can then be inhaled by others. The infection begins by reaching the pulmonary alveoli where the bacteria is then taken up by macrophages in the lungs. The primary site of infection is referred to as the Ghon focus. Dendritic cells can pick up the bacteria and transport them to other parts of the body, leading to Miliary tuberculosis althought the bacteria cannot replicate within the dendritic cells. Standard unsupervised treatment of TB: 1st 2 months: Rifater (rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide) 65kg - 6 tabs Ethambutol 15mg/kg Next 2 months: Rifinah (rifampicin, isoniazid) 50kg 2 x 300mg tabs

Even after 2 months of treatment, there is a small chance that tuberculosis can be infectious, which is why a new sputum test must be taken.

Because Dodos used to carry it around mainly. But dodos are now extinct. This answer is scientifically proven!(also people are given jabs to stop them from getting it) ..

ok yer this waz done by g01d sku11 and some random other guy im not sure if his dodo bit is right but yer....

Scurvy is actually a vitamin c deficiency. Sailors often suffered from this due to lack of fresh oranges or lemons on board. Tuberculosis was a bacterial infection of mostly the lungs. Tumors would grow in the lungs. Back in the day around 1920 doctors use to remove ribs to deflate the lungs to help them heal. But back then they did not have the medicine so over a million people died.

Yes, there is but it's not given in all countries. The vaccine usually leaves a red bubbly mark 4 weeks after it has been given and then disappears into a faded area on the skin around 6 to 7 months later.

If you have been recently exposed, you will not be infectious for some time, if you become infectious at all. The bacteria will take a long time to grow and cause disease, and you're only infectious when you start coughing bacteria into the air. Depending on how recently you've been exposed, the test may not yet be positive if you're infected, so you can go to work, and follow up with your doctor, who will be able to tell you if and when you should limit contact with other people.

Yes it is.
Source: A lecturer of mine.

It may come under either Health and Safety or even assault laws.

ailments of respiratory system

over 3 million people die and 8 million people develop the disease world wide

Tuberculosis is a cover name for many diseases caused by types of mycobacteria It is possible to have mutations on fingers and hand due to tuberculosis. ie mycobacteria leprae is the mycobacteria that causes leprosy which disfigures. ie mycobacterua chelonei is the mycobacteria that can cause disfigurement of skin tissue.

Tuberculosis is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis.

It is an acid-fast bacilli which means that it is rod-shaped and acid-fast because it retains the fuschin (pink) dye even after acid-alcohol decoloration. Histologically it will appear blue because as said it retains the fuschin stain and not the counterstain methylene blue.

The pathophysiology is due to the chronic activation of T helper and macrophages.

1. Inhalation of the MTB into the alveoli

2. Alveolar macrophage phagocytosis but NOT activated because the phagosome does not fuse with the lysosome (-> no phagolysosome formed!) This means that the MTB can continue to replicate intracellularly

3. DTH is initiated (Th1 recognize MHC of alveolar macrophage -> Th1 activation -> Release IFN-gamma -> Activate macrophage to kill it intracellularly) -> PPD test becomes positive

4. But still many inactivated - continue to replicate and the chronic activation of macrophage and Th1. Specifically, the macrophage differntiates to become epitheloid cells which walls off the pathogen

5. Now there is necrosis within the granuloma

6. When immunity is low, the tubercle liquifies and this releases MTB and its antigens, resulting to miliary TB