Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is easily spread through the air. Those infected can spread the germ to others through sneezing, coughing laughing and talking. TB is more of a health threat in Georgia than most people realize. Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates there were 335 active cases reported in Georgia during 2014 (CDC, 2016). M. tuberculosis is a nonsporulating rod-shaped bacteria which is classified as gram-positive

Drug Resistance Rising Among Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cases Abstract Drug resistance has been increasing among patients infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Previous miracle drugs that were used in the 1950s have now been proven useless in many cases simply because the bacteria are not susceptible to antibiotics such as isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, etc. when they are taken. This pathogen is easily transmitted through air and has the capability of attacking the respiratory system

Tuberculosis is the disease of the lung caused by a bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB is transmitted through airborne route when a person with TB coughs or sneeze into the air which is then inhaled by non-infected person and cause TB infection. In people who are co-infected with HIV and TB, about 50% may develop TB disease. There is a difference between TB infection and TB disease. In South Africa about 88% of the adult population is infected with TB be but not sick of a TB disease

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection disease caused by the organism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Mtb is an airborne transmission disease, which is spread by the inhalation of small droplet from the infected individual with pulmonary (lung) TB to a non-infected individual. TB has different stages of infections but the major one are active and latent stage. Normally tuberculosis stays dormant inside the granuloma in the host without causing any illness but in 10% in cases

Overview Tuberculosis is a airborne bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria (Mtb). It is one of the most common diseases worldwide. A person can either have an Mtb infection (inactive) or the TB disease (active). (1, 3) Etiology and Pathology Mtb is mainly found in the human being and in their respiratory tract. It can also be found in the brain, kidneys and spine by leaving the capillaries into the interstitial fluid. TB can be spread person to person when someone who is

INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis (TB) is infectious disease caused by bacterial pathogens from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex. Tuberculosis affects various organs of the body forming granulomas at the site of infection. The pulmonary TB is the most common form (Anon, 2015).Only the pulmonary form is infectious with aerosol transmission after a sneeze or cough from an infected individual. Once an individual is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex, clinically, it can either lead to a TB infection

Chapter One: Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is a airborne and contagious-infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli, usually establishes its infection in the lungs and known as pulmonary tuberculosis also can affect other sites and known as extrapulmonary tuberculosis (Rodrigo,2006; Comas,2009). Human Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global public health problem for both developed and developing countries , is the second cause of death in worldwide, after the human immunodeficiency

Processing of findings Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is defined in two different ways depending on whether or not the patients had previously received treatment for TB. In patients who had never received treatment or who had received treatment for less than a month, their multidrug resistance is defined by the presence of a resistant strain of mycobacterium tuberculosis and in patients that have been previously treated, it is characterised by the failure and relapse (Dhole et al., 2017). Research

Introduction Tuberculosis is an antique, deadly infectious disease caused by the bacterium baccilus Mycobacterium tuberculosis1. In 2014, a DNA reconstruction study of tuberculosis genome suggested that human tuberculosis is much younger than what was initially thought2. Rather than tracing its origins back to more than 10,000 years ago3,4, this study speculated the origins of human tuberculosis to be around 6,000 years ago2. The first archaeological records of tuberculosis can be traced back to

INTRODUCTION One-forth of this world’s people are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It is the reason of virtually millions of deaths all over the world every year. This ratio is more than the deaths caused by any other pathogen. From the start of the twentieth century, tuberculosis has become a relatively uncommon disease instead of the most common reason of deaths worldwide [1-3]. The incidence of tuberculosis has waned in the developed countries. The World Health Organization reports that