Tuberculosis : Hiv And Tb

“TB is a contagious and often severe airborne disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacteria. TB typically affects the lungs, but it can also affect any other organ of the body,"(tuberculosis, 2015). Tb can be classified as either latent or active. TB is called latent when a person has the Tb bacteria but does not feel sick. This person cannot spread the bacteria but it does increase the chance that they will be diagnosed with active TB if they become immunocompromised. Active TB displays full blows signs and symptoms of TB and can be spread to other people through droplets in the air.

Tuberculosis is caused by the bacteria “Mycobacterium Tuberculosis” and is mainly causes infection of the lungs (WHO, 2016). Its mode of transmission is airborne, so it can be passed on by inhalation of airborne droplets which carrying the bacteria, when an infected patient coughs, sneezes, or spits the TB germs into the air (WHO, 1026). Among the symptoms of active TB are: cough with sputum and blood, chest pains, weakness, fever and night sweats (WHO, 2016). Most at risk to get the TB infection are people with weakened immune system such as people who are suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, severe kidney disease, silicosis and especially HIV infection (CDC, 2016). Children and Tobacco users are also at greater risk to fall ill with TB.

(cdc.gov) Individuals with latent TB will have no symptoms of active disease and are not contagious. However, these same individuals can develop tuberculosis if they become immunocompromised, live in poverty, have poor nutrition or have other comorbidities. (Maurer & Smith, 2013)

Symptoms: Tuberculosis has many different symptoms that can take place during its active stages. In the prior paragraph I already stated that during its inactive stage the human is clear of any symptoms or effects that the disease may cause but the active stage is where most symptoms occur. Many symptoms like coughing up blood, fevers, loss of appetite, weight loss, chest pains, night sweat, chills and fatigue are associated with this disease. During Tuberculosis active stages you can develop anyone of those symptoms which will constantly take effect is not

Tuberculosis, TB (tubercle bacillus) or MTB (mycobacterium tuberculosis) is a widespread, and in numerous cases fatal, communicable disease produced by a variety of forms of mycobacteria. The disease is distributed within the air when individuals who are infected with active TB infection sneeze, cough, or pass on breathing fluids throughout the air. Generally infections are asymptomatic, meaning they feel or show no symptoms, and dormant, but then again approximately one in ten dormant infections in the long run move on to the active disease. If left untouched, active TB is fatal to more than half of those infected.

TB is usually transmitted through exposure to others with active tuberculosis infections. If the infector has active pulmonary TB and performs any action that expels out salivary or mucous material, that material can transmit the bacteria to others. The bacteria then

Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease that affects the lungs and can often be serious when not treated quickly and properly. Tuberculosis is a miserable illness to have and is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis being spread through the air. Symptoms include severe coughing that can last for longer than three weeks, coughing up blood, chest pain, pain when breathing or coughing, weight loss, fatigue, fever, night sweats, chills, and lack of appetite. This illness can also affect other organs or body parts, which lead to additional symptoms. When it occurs outside the lungs the symptoms correspond to the place it occurs. Examples include back pain when it occurs in your spine and blood in urine when it occurs in the

Then large amounts of caseous, a cheese-like material is continually generated. This material then liquefies, makes its way up the respiratory tract and mixes with saliva and becomes sputum, which in turn is coughed up profusely.

If a person with TB disease coughs, sings, or sneezes the TB germs contaminate the air around; people near the contaminated air can then breathe TB germs and acquire TB infection.

Tuberculosis is highly contagious and can spread from infected person to a healthy person through the air by inhaling airborne droplets called nuclei from an infected person. These airborne particles come from the infected person by sneezing, coughing or laughing and other forced respiratory. Which is why someone close to an infected person on a daily basis will be at high risk of getting infected especially for example if they share the same room. If the droplets containing tuberculosis bacilli are large they become embedded in the proximal airways. Which should not cause an infection. The infection happens when the particles are small, enough to cross the upper respiratory defence and reach the lungs. In 1950 several antibiotic were developed

Tuberculosis(TB) is a highly contagious disease that primarily affects the lungs, although it can also be found in other body parts. The disorder is caused by a bacteria called myocardial tuberculosis, and is mostly spread through the air when an infected person coughs. Many years ago, tuberculosis accounted for nearly 30% of deaths in the US. In the 1940’s and 50’s, however, its fatality rate dropped significantly due to antibiotics and vaccinations. Since the outbreak of AIDS, tuberculosis has increasingly been an issue again since people with the disease cannot fight off TB (Bontrager & Lampignano 2005, Basic TB Facts 2012).

The lungs are the primary sites of TB infection. MTB have the ability to spread from one person to another through air as a person with active TB coughs, sneezes, or expels air.

TB is a disease of the lungs. This disease can spread to other areas of the body and

TB is transmitted through air especially when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or speaks thereby releasing the bacteria that causes TB into the air. If an uninfected person breathes in this infected air, they also get infected with TB. This becomes easier when the person breathing in the air has a compromised immune system. Bacterium that causes TB is capable of staying inside an individual without necessarily causing an infection. Such people do not show TB symptoms neither do they appear sick. Nevertheless, they are capable of spreading the bacterium that causes TB to people they interact with (CDC, 2012).

The disease can be transmitted mainly through the air, but there are other means of being infected with TB. Alcohol and drug abuse are some of the popular means in which infection can occur and since the drugs weaken the immune system, the spread of the ailment can be rather fast. Terminal diseases like HIV and cancer reduce the immune system and this promotes propagation of the disease into an individual’s body system.