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