Pulmonary tuberculosis

Pulmonary tuberculosis
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Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). You can get TB by breathing in air droplets from a cough or sneeze of an infected person. This is called primary TB.

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis: See: Tuberculosis, extrapulmonary. See also: Tuberculous meningitis.
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Alternate Names : Miliary tuberculosis, Tuberculosis - disseminated, Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
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pulmonary tuberculosis
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Pulmonary tuberculosis
Pulmonary tuberculosis is TB that affects the lungs. Its initial symptoms are easily confused with those of other diseases.

Pulmonary Tuberculosis occurs when the organism infects the lungs. Symptoms include a mild shortness of breath, fever, night sweats, poor appetite, poor weight gain, Failure to Thrive, decreased activity, and a cough, ...

Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body. [Webster1913]
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Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Other Specified Type
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Pulmonary Tuberculous, Unspecified; Respiratory Tuberculosis, NOS; Tuberculosis of Lung, NOS ...

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Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis
Extrapulmonary TB is usually treated with a combination of 4 medicines for 6 to 9 months, followed by another 4 to 7 months of treatment with 2 medicines.
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Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis
TB outside the lung usually results from hematogenous dissemination. Sometimes infection directly extends from an adjacent organ. Symptoms vary by site but generally include fever, malaise, and weight loss.

As a form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that impacts the spine, Pott's disease has an effect that is sometimes described as being a sort of arthritis for the vertebrae that make up the spinal column.

At the International Congress on Tuberculosis held in Vienna in 1907 Weichselbaum summarized the channels of infection in pulmonary tuberculosis as follows: It will be noted that the rate in the agricultural districts is low compared to the ...

Clinical manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis
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Genitourinary tuberculosis results from the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis through the blood to the genitourinary tract. The bacteria lodge within the tissues of the genitourinary tract and form caseating granulomas.

Active pulmonary tuberculosis cases and suspects who are sputum-smear negative, are not coughing, are clinically improving, and are known to be on adequate tuberculosis chemotherapy are defined as noninfectious.

Pulmonary tuberculosis is treated with antituberculosis drugs. Because pleurodynia is a viral infection, it does not respond to antibiotic treatment. However, most people with pleurodynia recover on their own without complications.

Avery came to the attention of Rufus Cole, the director of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, through his paper on secondary infections in pulmonary tuberculosis.

Transmission is most likely to occur from patients who have unrecognized pulmonary tuberculosis or tuberculosis related to their larynx, are not on effective anti-tuberculosis therapy, and have not been placed in tuberculosis isolation.

In older infants and children, primary pulmonary tuberculosis (the first infection with the tuberculosis bacteria) usually produces no signs or symptoms, and a chest X-ray shows no signs of infection.

Relapsing fevers (days of fever alternating with days without) occur in brucellosis (fever with physical activity), Hodgkin disease, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, malaria, and Lyme disease.

bronchophony over the spinous processes heard, at a lower level than in health, in pulmonary tuberculosis;
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Fulminating or disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis when used concurrently with appropriate antituberculous chemotherapy
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Some of the diseases of concern are pulmonary tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases (e.g. gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia), or hepatitis A, B, or C.

Consumption: A wasting away of the body; formerly applied especially to pulmonary tuberculosis. Synonyms: marasmus (in the mid-nineteenth century), phthisis.

Miliary tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - disseminated; Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
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Permanently enlarged (dilated) airways (bronchiectasis)
Pockets of infection (lung abscess)
Small areas of long-term infection (such as highly localized pulmonary tuberculosis or mycobacterium)
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Pulmonary tuberculosis
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See also: Tuberculosis, Symptom, Cancer, Fever, Cough