tuberculosis

What is tuberculosis? Is an infectious disease caused primarily by a bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which primarily affects the lungs (pulmonary TB), but can attack any other part of the body (extrapulmonary tuberculosis). Like common cold, it spreads through the air, and tuberculosis patients are the only source of the infection. And when an infected cough or sneeze or talk or spit or laugh or sing, they pay TB germs known Balasaat tuberculosis, in the air. If inhaled healthy person this air contaminated with germs, can cause an infection. Despite this, the TB is not considered easily transmitted diseases because infections generally occur from mixing close TB patient, and for a long time, and congestion is at home and the workplace is an important factor in the configuration of infection It is important to understand the difference between TB infection and TB. A person infected with tubercle bacilli found his body tuberculosis germs, but prevents the body's immune system without disease progression and symptom onset, as it to Aanscher infection to others. As a person with TB disease is sick and likely to die, and if it does not receive appropriate treatment, can transmit the disease to others, and die within a period of time ranging from several months to several years.

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