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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:  DuckDuckGo
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