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| an infectious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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| who do you usually see with tb? |
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| homeless, foreign born, elderly, prisoners, iv drug users, no access to health care, immunosuppression |
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early-no s/s
latent-positive tb test
active-frequent cough, white frothy sputum, fatigue, malaise, unexplained weight loss, low-grade fever, night sweats |
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| a large number of organisms invade the bloodstream |
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| miliary tb, pleural effusion, empyema, tb pneumonia, other organ involvement (inflammation of meningnes most serious |
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tb skin test (mantoux test)
chest xray
sputum smear
sputum culture |
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| long term treatment with antimicrobial drugs (INH, rifampin, ethambutol, rifabutin, streptomycin) |
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| pulmonary fungal infection |
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-caused by inhalation of spores
-treat with corticosteroids, antineoplastic, immunosupressive drugs, multiple antibiotics, amphotericin B |
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| a pus containing lesion of the lung parenchyma that gives rise to a cavity |
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