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