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Tuberculosis (TB) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - TB incidence is falling at 2% each year
        
        People who are infected with HIV are 19 times more likely to develop active TB.
        
        People with undernutrition are 3 times more at risk.
        
        People infected with TB bacteria have a 5–15% lifetime risk of falling ill with TB.
- - - - HIV positive
        
        Substance abuse
        
        Diabetes mellitus
        
        Poverty
        
        Smokers
        
        Malnutrition
        
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- - - - When someone who has TB coughs, sneezes, or speaks, the infected germs move into the air. A person then breathes in these germs. Latent TB is then instilled in that person. This means they have TB but may not show symptoms for several weeks.
        
        Infection occurs when a person inhales droplet nuclei containing tubercle bacilli that reach the
        alveoli of the lungs. These tubercle bacilli are ingested by alveolar macrophages. A small number survives past the macrophages. The ones that survived spread to other organs in the body.
- - - - The diagnosis confirmed through sputum stain and culture and chest radiographs.
- - - - Night sweats and general anxiety are often present. Dyspnea, chest pain, and hemoptysis may occur as the disease progresses.
- - - - Multidrug-resistant TB requires a combination of second-line drugs for treatment success.
        
        For 6 months 2 antibiotics : isoniazid and rifampicin
        
        2 additional antibiotics for the first 2 months of the 6 month treatment: pyrazinamide and ethambutol
- - - - NHS. (2019, November 12). Treatment Tuberculosis. Retrieved November 10, 2020, from https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tuberculosis-tb/treatment/