Group 3 VIII D

Agis Ladera

Amirah Yowanda

Juan Amarda

M. Taufiqul Umam

Tuberculosis

Definition

Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB (short for tubercle bacillus) is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit their saliva through the air. Most infections are asymptomatic and latent, but about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which if left untreated, kills more than 50% of those so infected.

Symptoms

active TB infection are a chronic cough with blood-tinged sputum, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. Infection of other organs causes a wide range of symptoms. Diagnosis of active TB relies on radiology (commonly chest X-rays), as well as microscopic examination and microbiological culture of body fluids.

Prevention

Tuberculosis prevention and control efforts primarily rely on the vaccination of infants and the detection and appropriate treatment of active cases. The World Health Organization has achieved some success with improved treatment regimens, and a small decrease in case numbers.

Medication

Medications are the cornerstone of tuberculosis treatment. But treating TB takes much longer than treating other types of bacterial infections. With tuberculosis, you must take antibiotics for at least six to nine months. The exact drugs and length of treatment depend on your age, overall health, possible drug resistance, the form of TB (latent or active) and the infection's location in the body.

in keeping latent TB from becoming active TB. With the shorter course of treatment, people are more likely to take all their medication and the risk of side effects is lessened.

incubation period

The length of TB incubation varies depending on individual risk factors. Within six weeks of being exposed, an infected person develops a primary infection in the lungs, which may have no symptoms. The disease then enters a dormant phase that can last weeks to years.

Duration of sickness

It is a long time before it shows itself after implantation and frequently it develops even to the stage of breaking down without manifesting many symptoms. . The average duration of tuberculosis from the time of implantation to the fatal termination, when it terminates fatally, is about ten years. The severe symptoms often last from six months to two years. The dying period is usually about two months. Tuberculosis a Curable Disease.—Tuberculosis is a curable disease

Recuperation characteristics

With the very best treatment recovery from tuberculosis is a very slow process. The time which it takes for recovery depends upon the advancement of the disease, the amount of tissue involved and the amount of tissue destroyed. When a patient comes under treatment very early he may recover in six months and when he comes under treatment very late if he recovers at all it may take him from six to ten years. After a great deal of tissue has been destroyed recovery never again becomes complete in the sense that the person is as well as he was before he took sick.