Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it... Wikipedia
- Specialty: Infectious disease, pulmonology
- Symptoms: Chronic cough, fever, cough with bloody mucus, weight loss
- Causes: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Risk factors: Smoking, HIV/AIDS
- Diagnostic method: CXR, culture, tuberculin skin test, QuantiFERON
- Differential diagnosis: Pneumonia, histoplasmosis, sarcoidosis, coccidioidomycosis
- Prevention: Screening those at high risk, treatment of those infected, vaccination with bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)
- Treatment: Antibiotics
- Frequency: 25% of people (latent TB) 10.6 million (active TB)
- Deaths: 1.3 million (2022)
- Data source: SearchOye
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