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Management of tuberculosis refers to techniques and procedures utilized for treating tuberculosis (TB), or simply a treatment plan for TB.. The medical standard for active TB is a short course treatment involving a combination of isoniazid, rifampicin (also known as Rifampin), pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for the first two months.
The cascade of person-to-person spread can be circumvented by segregating those with active ("overt") TB and putting them on anti-TB drug regimens. After about two weeks of effective treatment, subjects with nonresistant active infections generally do not remain contagious to others. [73]
In fact, "it isn't easy to catch TB. You need consistent exposure to the contagious person for a long time. For that reason, you're more likely to catch TB from a relative than a stranger." [7] If a person had latent tuberculosis, they do not have active/contagious tuberculosis. Once exposed, people very often have latent tuberculosis.
Present TB status of Bangladesh: According to the WHO, 'Global TB Report 2017' total population was 165 million, Bangladesh is one of the world's 30 high TB burden countries and near about 59170 people died due to tuberculosis. The total estimated number of TB patients was 364000, among them male patients were recorded at 236000, and female ...
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) (Bengali: রোগতত্ত্ব, রোগ নিয়ন্ত্রণ ও গবেষণা ইনস্টিটিউট) is a Bangladesh government research institute, under the Ministry of Health, responsible for researching epidemiological and communicable disease in Bangladesh as well as disease control.
Directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS, also known as TB-DOTS) is the name given to the tuberculosis (TB) control strategy recommended by the World Health Organization. [1] According to WHO, "The most cost-effective way to stop the spread of TB in communities with a high incidence is by curing it.
Alerting the general public about exposures or outbreaks (IE: COVID-19, Measles, TB, etc.) Offering diagnosis, counseling and treatment to already infected individuals; If the infection is treatable, helping prevent reinfection of the originally infected patient; Learning about the epidemiology of a disease in a particular population
[21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...