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Many people have this bacterium inside infected.
their body but most of them do not have a 95% of those who get infected will
manifest infection. Once the immune develop the disease only after several
system is weakened the bacteria becomes years as their immune system is able to
active and so symptoms of the disease inactivate the disease for a while. The
appear. disease will manifest when the immune
Not everyone develops this affection. The system will be too weak to fight the
people at risk are those who have no bacteria and so the lungs will be
homes, who live in crowded and unsanitary affected, and cavities filled with
conditions, who were in prison, and who bacteria and dead cells will appear
use drugs. The most affected ones are inside them.
those who live in developing countries as The extra pulmonary tuberculosis refers
the sanitary system in those countries is at those cases in which tuberculosis had
not well adjusted yet. affected other organs besides the lungs,
Tuberculosis is a disease which affects like the liver, the kidneys and the
mostly the lungs but can also affect the bones.
kidneys, the brain, the bones and he The military tuberculosis is the form of
joints. In most people tuberculosis is the disease which spreads by the
inactive but in those who have a weakened bloodstream towards the entire organism.
immune system like in the HIV patients The way to show if someone is positive,
tuberculosis becomes active and meaning that it is infected but it has no
manifests. symptoms is to take a PPD skin test.
Tuberculosis can be caught by air, if an In primary tuberculosis cases the
infected person coughs or sneezes and symptoms which appear are fever and
spreads the bacteria in small droplets of fatigue mostly but cough, night sweats,
saliva. Shaking hands or using the same and chest pains are present.
tools when working does not give you the In post primary tuberculosis patients
infection because the bacteria dies fast symptoms vary from fever, cough and night
if exposed to sun and air and survives sweats to weakness and loss of weight. In
only if inhaled in the lungs. some cases coughing with blood can appear
In most of the cases if the bacteria gets and problems with breathing can
into the lungs the immune system will interfere.
stop it from dividing and so the bacteria In extra pulmonary tuberculosis patients
will remain in an inactive state inside the symptoms vary due to the location of
the lungs. These people have no symptoms the disease. If the lymph nodes are
and they can be discovered as carriers of affected than they might become swollen;
the disease only by a special skin test. in the disease is located in the bones
5% of those who get infected will develop and joints than the spine, knees and
the primary pulmonary tuberculosis. These joist might become painful.
patients are mostly children and HIV In the military tuberculosis symptoms
patients who have a weakened immune vary from fever, loss of weight, cough
system and that is why they can not fight and night sweats to headaches, skin
against this disease when they get rashes, and visual problems.




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