Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. Tuberculosis is curable and preventable. Patients with active symptoms will require a long course of treatment involving multiple antibiotics.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections do not have symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a type of bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It's spread when a person with active TB disease in their lungs coughs or sneezes and someone else inhales the expelled droplets, which contain TB bacteria.
Pain areas: in the chest, Pain circumstances: can occur while breathing, Cough: can be chronic or with blood, Whole body: fatigue, fever, loss of appetite, malaise, night , Also common: loss of muscle, phlegm, severe unintentional weight loss, shortness of breath, or swollen lymph nodes sweats, or sweating
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GeneralMedicines :Drug therapy. For initial empiric treatment of TB, start patients on a 4-drug regimen: isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and either ethambutol or streptomycin. Once the TB isolate is known to be fully susceptible, ethambutol (or streptomycin, if it is used as a fourth drug) can be discontinued.
