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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease usually attacks the lungs can actually affect any other part of the body as well. TB is extremely contagious — one person is infected with Tuberculosis bacilli each second in the world! Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and has three stages: exposure, infection and the disease. Join this forum to discuss topics related to tuberculosis!

tuberculosis transmission

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I have tuberculosis. This condition has appear last week but I do not remember that anyone in my surrounding have this disease. I would like to know very much how I got it. Is there some health worker who can tell me how it transmits? Tuberculosis transmission is something I am not familiar with.

by User avatar grenville31854

effects of tuberculosis

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I need to hear what are effects of tuberculosis for it turns out that this persistent cough in my husband in fact is tuberculosis and the worse thing it is not just about TB infection it is active tuberculosis condition that was not recognized on time. The truth is my husband had this chest pain for...

by User avatar cheri19437

tuberculosis in children

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How are children infected by tuberculosis? I am studying for a nurse, and we recently visited children department in local hospital, as a part of our practice. There were several heavy cases that really made me upset and I almost started crying. Anyhow, I will acquire books and scripts concerning...

by User avatar cheri19437

atypical tuberculosis

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Hello, I am 63 years old and just got out of hospital. I feel very happy that I did not stay there permanently, concerning my age. I had a very serious operation on my intestines; actually, doctors removed one part of it that was affected by tuberculosis. How I was infected there with that disease,...

by User avatar blayne19435

tuberculosis positive

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Hi, I have a daughter. She is 14 years old. Lately she had some problems with breathing. Also she was suffering from an annoying chest pain. I have decided to take her to a doctor. They suspect it is tuberculosis. They want to run some diagnosis to be positive that it is tuberculosis, but she is...

by User avatar lauritz25835

extrapulmonary tuberculosis

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I have heard of tuberculosis but I am not in anyway familiar with extra pulmonary tuberculosis and that is how my 45 years old friend has been diagnosed recently. He is hospitalized and I am not even allowed visiting him in this stage of illness. So please is there anyone who could tell me what...

by User avatar mendy25366

cure for tuberculosis

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I would like to hear what would be the right cure for tuberculosis for that is how my elder brother was diagnosed recently and he is still in hospital. I am pretty much concerned over this for I taught that this disease has disappeared and this is in fact the first time I have heard someone is being...

by User avatar cheri19437

tuberculosis sputum

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Hi, I have read somewhere that tuberculosis is one of the most dangerous infections in the world and that it kills more people than any other disease. The article also said that the identification and diagnosis of tuberculosis are very hard because the symptoms resemble many other pulmonary...

by User avatar thibaut32619

tuberculosis spread

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Hi, my very good friend got tuberculosis. He visited his doctor last week and after he made several analyses tuberculosis was diagnosed. As we were spending some time together, in last few months, I am afraid that I will get tuberculosis too. Please, can you tell me which the main ways of...

by User avatar blayne19435

tuberculosis exposure

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Is tuberculosis exposure dangerous? How infective this disease is? I ask this because my daughter is a medical college student. In last few weeks she had exercises on patient suffering from lung illnesses, thus including tuberculosis. I have to admit that I do not know one thing about transferring...

by User avatar cheri19437