Tuberculosis

the most common strain that causes tuberculosis in humans is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. there are also other strains, but in terms of incidence, they do not cause much damage in humans. examples of this is Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium africanum. these strains are more common in animals.

SDS Tuberculosis Sanatorium was created in 1948.

about 250 million people died of tuberculosis. - - - 100 million people died of TB throughout all of the 1900s, according to a reference cited in Wikipedia. But the current fatality rate is much higher, with about 2 million dying every year, worldwide, from TB.

Primary complex is another name for tuberculosis (TB). Drugs can treat this condition, some of those are: isoniazid (Laniazid, Nydrazid), rifampin (Rifadin, Rimactane), pyrazinamide (pms-Pyrazinamide, Tebrazid) and ethambutol (Myambutol) - taken over at least a six month period.

There are multiple reasons:

-TB is highly contagious and can be spread from the patient to the healthcare worker and from the healthcare work to other patients.

-It is spread through the air as small particles.

-TB treatment MUST be completed fully. In other words, the medication used to treat TB has become less effective in treating the pathogen because patients are not taking the medication properly. This has lead to highly resistant strains of TB.

-Highly resistant strains pose a higher risk for infecting healthcare works and other patients.

*Patients should take medication the same time every day and for the full amount of time it is prescribed.

TB is an ancient infectious disease that has been around for over 30, 000 years. It is Caused by infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and in most cases affects the lungs. It is found worldwide. The bacilli spores are transmitted through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes, but you have to spend quite a long time with an infected person in order to catch TB. It cannot be transmitted by objects such as bed linen or clothes, although it is possible to contract TB by drinking unpasteurised milk products from an infected cow.

Written by Anisa Zulfqar

The organ that is damaged if a person has Tuberculosis (TB) is the lungs.

It depend on the severity of the disease. In most cases it can be healed completely. But in severe ones, the damage is permanent and nothing can be done to remove it. For instance, the pulmonary tuberculosis can be healed, but if it has developed fibrosis of the pulmonary organ, it cannot be undone. For more information you can read <a href="http://tuberculosissymptom.org">Tuberculosis symptoms</a>.

The cause of tuberculosis is the infectious agent called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This is an aerobic bacterium that does need oxygen or air to survive.

Yes. Robert Koch discover the Infection so Tuberculosis was also called Koch's Infection.

Chlorine kills almost all types of bacteria and viruses, when given a time of hour or two. It find it difficult to kill the ova and cysts. But you can filter the water to remove the ova and cysts.

yes. secondary tuberculosis which is more common in adult is actually the reactivation of the bacterial (M. Tuberculosis) which remain dormant in the lung after the first infection that can go back years ago.

Yes, it is transmittable. A test known as a PPD, or Mantoux, can detect the presence of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium. Tuberculosis is found worldwide. Tuberculosis is spread from person to person through the air. People with TB disease of the lung spray the bacteria into the air when they cough, sneeze, talk, or laugh. People nearby can breathe in the bacteria and become infected. To become infected, a person usually needs to be exposed for a long time to air containing many TB bacteria. TB infection is diagnosed by a skin test. A small needle is used to put some fluid, called tuberculin, under the skin on the inside of the arm. After 2 to 3 days, the amount of skin swelling around the test area is measured. A positive reaction usually means that the person has TB infection. TB disease is diagnosed by a chest x-ray or a test of a sputum sample.

TB infection and disease are very common worldwide. About 8 million new cases of TB disease occur each year in the world, and approximately 22,000 cases are reported each year in the United States. Also, 10 million to 15 million people in the United States are infected with TB and could develop TB disease in the future. With the discovery of anti-TB drugs in the 1940s, U.S. cases began to decrease for most of the 20th century. However, between 1985 and 1992, TB cases increased. This resurgence of TB prompted the mobilization of improved efforts to prevent and control TB. As a result, cases have dropped each year since 1993.

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Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs but that can attack other parts of the body. There are two forms of TB: TB infection and TB disease. Most people with TB have TB infection.

You certainly can.

An individual is able to spread pulmonary tuberculosis from an assigned date of 3 months prior to symptom onset or a positive lab report. An individual is considered no longer communicable after effective treatment has been demonstrated for greater than or equal to 2 weeks causing a significant reduction in symptoms.

I am not sure how long it will live outside the body, but this does not necessarily matter as many people are carriers.

TB bacteria vary. When exposed to an antibacterial drug, some variants may tolerate it well, while others may not, due to the vagaries of their varying biochemistries. Those that do tolerate it will out-reproduce those that do not, and will tend to become more and more common variants. But further variation is being accumulated all the time. Along comes another drug, and the process repeats itself.

Tuberculosis has been present in humans since antiquity. The earliest unambiguous detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosisis in the remains of bison dated 17,000 years before the present.[53] However, whether tuberculosis originated in cattle and then transferred to humans, or diverged from a common ancestor, is currently unclear.[54] Skeletal remains show prehistoric humans (4000 BC) had TB, and tubercular decay has been found in the spines of mummies from 3000-2400 BC.[55] Phthisis is a Greek term for tuberculosis; around 460 BC, Hippocrates identified phthisis as the most widespread disease of the times involving coughing up blood and fever, which was almost always fatal.[56] Genetic studies suggest that TB was present in South America for about 2,000 years.[57] In South America, the earliest evidence of tuberculosis is associated with the Paracas-Caverna culture.1

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