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Learning Objectives
Explain how bacterial and viral
infectious diseases have a
sequence of symptoms that may
result in death, including
the diseases caused by
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB)
What is TB?
TB is an infectious disease that can affect
any part of the body although it is usually
found in the lungs.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Between humans
Droplet infection
Mycobacterium
bovis
Human TB in sputum
There are 2 things wrong or not useful in this information. Can you spot
them?
Symptoms
Fever
Night-time
sweating
Loss of weight
Persistent cough
Constant tiredness
Loss of appetite
Coughing up blood
How is it caught?
aerosol infection.
22% of those in close or prolonged
contact with a person carrying the disease
become infected.
Is associated with AIDS people with
immune-suppression caught it more easily.
Course of Infection
1.
Primary infection.
Second phase.
Active TB.
Vaccination
Drug-resistant strains
Discuss