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