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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis or TB (Tubercles Bacillus) is an infectious disease and is caused by several strains of mycobacteria. All questions concerning signs and symptoms, causes, transmission, risk factors, treatments and medications can be found here.
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What body systems does tuberculosis affects and how it affects it?
the most common system it effects is the respiratory system.it is a communicable disease spread by droplets.
Strep throat and tuberculosis both are caused by contact with infected?
These illnesses are spread by contact with infected mucus.
Has tuberculosis been eradicated?
No. It still exists in all populations, but it has been controled in more advanced countries
The small points of the instrument are either coated with dried tuberculin or are used to puncture through a film of liquid tuberculin. The test is read by measuring the size of the largest papule.
What was the deadliest out of Typhoid tuberculosis smallpox and cholera in the Victorian times?
Cholera
Are pleurisy and tuberculosis the same?
No.
Pleurisy a condition where you get sharp chest pains, usually limited to a relatively small area of the chest, that is worse when you take a deep breath. It is thought to usually arise from inflammation of the lining of the lung (aka the pleura).
Tuberculosis is a specific infection that commonly affects the lung (although it can spread elsewhere). Tuberculosis is one of many causes of pleurisy.
What happens when TB spreads to the abdominal cavity?
Tuberculous peritonitis may cause pain ranging from the vague discomfort of stomach cramps to intense pain that may mimic the symptoms of appendicitis.
XDR or extremely drug resistant tuberculosis is at a form of tuberculosis which does not respond to usual tb treatment.
When was Tuberculosis serious?
TB is still a very serious disease. Before antibiotics, Tuberculosis was fatal and almost everyone who contracted it died. but now, we have special antibiotics to help treat it. However, TB is an extremely difficult bacterium to get rid of, and it is still considered a serious disease.
What where the most popular illness and disease in World War 2?
WWII had the benefit of pennicillin and sulfa drugs for treatment of many conditions, so the common diseases were much the same as they are today: colds, flu, various infections, sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, diabetes and so on. In this period, there were diseases that, while they may not have been widespread, have pretty much been eradicated in the modern day: polio, smallpox, yellow fever, measles, tetanus and tuberculosis are examples.
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If you are asking if TB (tuberculosis) is contagious, the answer is yes. If you are asking if TB is contiguous, the answer is when it is a synthetic viral epitope and is contiguously linked.
What is abdominal tuberculosis?
Abdominal tuberculosis is ranked sixth in extra pulmonary tuberculosis.
How do you say tuberculosis in Creole?
Actually, there is no such language as "Creole."
The word Creole describes any language that is a stable, full-fledged language originating from a pidgin (which is a language composed of two or more unrelated languages).
There are dozens of completely different creoles still spoken in the world today. Some of most common creolized languages are Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole, Jamaican Creole, and Tok Pisin.
Why is pyridoxine used in the treatment of tuberculosis?
Isoniazid is a first line anti-tubercular drug which is used in treatment of tuberculosis.
Pyridoxine is the naturally occurring form of vitamin B6. Following absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, it is converted in the liver to a coenzyme, pyridoxal phosphate, that is involved in many metabolic processes. Isoniazid interferes competitively with pyridoxine metabolism by inhibiting the formation of the active form of the vitamin, and hence often results in peripheral neuropathy.
Hence, to prevent peripheral neuropathy, pyridoxine 10mg/day is given prophylactically to patients along with anti-tubercular treatment.
Patients with evidence of vitamin B6 deficiency may require doses upto 50mg/day.
Do anti tuberculosis drugs cause anaemia?
There are many different antituberculosis drugs available. A lot of them do cause anaemia as a side effect, although some of them do not.
Depending on how each drug works, the type of anaemia it causes varies.
Some antituberculosis drugs that cause anaemia as a side effect are:
* Cycloserine - megaloblastic anaemia * Isoniazid - haemolytic anaemia or aplastic anaemia * Pyrazinamide - sideroblastic anaemia * Rifampicin - haemolytic anaemia
What is the difference between bovine tuberculosis and tuberclosis?
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a form of tuberculosis (TB) that predominately affects cows, but is a zoonosis so can be transmitted to humans amongst other mammals. All forms of tuberculosis derive from bacteria from the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; the common form of tuberculosis that affects the majority of the human population is an infection of mycobacterium tuberculosos, whereas bovine tuberculosis is an infection of mycobacterium bovis. Symptoms and effects of both infections are indistinguishable, and therefore treatments consist of the same drugs and for the same period of time.
