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by auntiebi0tic
Wed Jan 08, 2020 6:22 pm
Forum: A to Z of Tuberculosis
Topic: Miliary TB
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Views: 12705

Miliary TB

Miliary TB is a rare form of active disease that occurs when TB bacteria find their way into the bloodstream. In this form, the bacteria quickly spread all over the body in tiny nodules and affect multiple organs at once. This form of TB can be rapidly fatal. Miliary tuberculosis is a form of tuberc...
by auntiebi0tic
Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:22 pm
Forum: A to Z of Tuberculosis
Topic: Announcement
Replies: 0
Views: 11065

Announcement

I am building this A to Z of tuberculosis terminology totally by myself.
If you find something relevant not here or have any ideas please let me know so I can add.
Thanks in advance auntebiotic
by auntiebi0tic
Tue Jan 07, 2020 7:18 pm
Forum: A to Z of Tuberculosis
Topic: DOTS (Directly observed Therapy)
Replies: 0
Views: 11350

DOTS (Directly observed Therapy)

Patient-centered case management should be used in the treatment strategy with an adherence plan that includes directly observed therapy (DOT). DOT is a strategy in which a health care worker or another designated person watches the TB patient swallow each dose of the anti-TB drugs. There has been a...
by auntiebi0tic
Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:41 pm
Forum: A to Z of Tuberculosis
Topic: Vaccine
Replies: 0
Views: 11830

Vaccine

Tuberculosis (TB) vaccines are vaccinations intended for the prevention of tuberculosis. Immunotherapy as a defence against Today, the only effective tuberculosis vaccine in common use is bacilli Calmette-Guérin (BCG) , first used on humans in 1921 About three out of every 10,000 people who get the ...
by auntiebi0tic
Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:36 pm
Forum: A to Z of Tuberculosis
Topic: Active TB
Replies: 0
Views: 12250

Active TB

About 10% of latent infections progress to active disease which, if left untreated, kills about half of those affected. see post on Latent TB Diagnosis of active TB is based on chest X-rays, as well as microscopic examination and culture of body fluids.[ IN SHORT: Active tb means you are contagious ...
by auntiebi0tic
Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:42 pm
Forum: A to Z of Tuberculosis
Topic: Latent TB 2(Long version)
Replies: 0
Views: 12456

Latent TB 2(Long version)

Latent tuberculosis (LTB), also called latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is when a person is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but does not have active tuberculosis. IMPORTANT NOTE Active tuberculosis can be contagious while latent tuberculosis is not, and it is therefore not possible to ...
by auntiebi0tic
Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:26 pm
Forum: A to Z of Tuberculosis
Topic: Latent TB 1(short Version)
Replies: 0
Views: 13936

Latent TB 1(short Version)

Latent TB (sleeping TB) What is Latent or Sleeping TB? People with latent TB infection do not feel sick and do not have any symptoms. They are infected with the TB bacteria, but do not have TB disease. TB bacteria can sleep in your body for years. The risk is that Latent TB can become active and ma...
by auntiebi0tic
Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:31 pm
Forum: TB information videos
Topic: 9,000 year history of TB
Replies: 0
Views: 9674

9,000 year history of TB

This vidoe tells the history of Tuberculosis from 9,000 years ago to today Tuberculosis couldn't be cured and eliminated by just one person like Dr. Robert Koch, but thanks to the collective efforts of the medical community since Koch's time--including public health initiatives and the introduction ...
by auntiebi0tic
Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:58 pm
Forum: Fashion. Beauty and TB
Topic: Skirts helping to spead TB?
Replies: 0
Views: 10702

Skirts helping to spead TB?

"The second half of the 19th century ushered in a radically transformed understanding of tuberculosis. Doctors realised many people spat in the street, public houses in fact wherever there was people there would be plenty of spittle. By then germ theory had emerged. This is the idea that micros...
by auntiebi0tic
Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:44 pm
Forum: Fashion. Beauty and TB
Topic: TB Victims of Fashion?
Replies: 0
Views: 6872

TB Victims of Fashion?

"Before the advent of antibiotics, its victims slowly wasted away, becoming pale and thin before finally dying of what was then known as consumption. The Victorians romanticized the disease and the effects it caused in the gradual build to death. For decades, many beauty standards emulated or h...