Tuberculosis
- Created by: Lyndsay Baker
- Created on: 26-10-12 21:32
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- TUBERCULOSIS
- CAUSES
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Droplet infection
- Overcrowding
- Foreign travel, refugees and immigration
- Increased susceptibility
- Malnourishment
- Other illness
- Immune disorders
- HIV/AIDS
- Multidrug resistant strains
- Mycobacterium bovis
- Cattle
- Infected milk
- Close contact with cows
- Cattle
- Drug use (needles)
- SYMPOTOMS
- Respiratory system
- Damage or destruction of lung tissue
- Final symptoms
- Coughing up blood
- Weakness
- Death
- cough
- Immune system
- Waxy layer protects from macrophages in primary
- Target T cells
- Reduce antibody production
- Opportunistic infections
- Fever
- Night sweats
- Appetite and weight loss
- Tired and listless
- Respiratory system
- TREATMENT
- Long course of antibiotics
- Many different types at first
- Then 4-7 months of 2 types
- Long course of antibiotics
- CONTROL
- Improve living standards
- Pasteurising milk
- Immunisation
- PRIMARY INFECTION
- Caught by 30% of those exposed
- Slow multiplication in lungs
- No obvious symptoms
- Tubercule
- Macrophages
- Dead bacteria
- Some bacteria may survive!
- Wait until weakened
- ACTIVE TUBERCULOSIS
- Wait until weakened
- 80% are a reactivation of primary infection
- DIAGNOSIS
- Chest x-ray
- Bacterial DNA?
- CAUSES
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