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  2. Diagnosis of tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    The medical history includes obtaining the symptoms of pulmonary TB: productive, prolonged cough of three or more weeks, chest pain, and hemoptysis. Systemic symptoms include low grade remittent fever, chills, night sweats, appetite loss, weight loss, easy fatiguability, and production of sputum that starts out mucoid but changes to purulent. [1]

  3. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. [1] Around 10% of latent infections progress to active disease that, if left untreated, kill about half of those affected. [1] Typical symptoms of active TB are chronic cough with blood-containing mucus, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. [1]

  4. Management of tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    A patient is expected to be free from all living TB bacteria after six months of therapy in Pulmonary TB or 8-10 months in Miliary TB. [citation needed] Latent tuberculosis or latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is treated with three to nine months of isoniazid alone. This long-term treatment often risks the development of hepatotoxicity. A ...

  5. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    After weeks of allowing the bacteria to grow the plate is checked for clear areas around the disk. If there is a clear area, the drug has killed the bacteria and most likely the bacteria are not resistant to that drug. [citation needed] As Mycobacterium tuberculosis evolved new strains of resistant bacteria were being found such as XDR-TB. The ...

  6. Latent tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    If a person has symptoms of tuberculosis, it is wise to be tested. [citation needed] Persons with diabetes may have an 18% chance of converting to active tuberculosis. [9] In fact, death from tuberculosis was greater in diabetic patients. [9] Persons with HIV and latent tuberculosis have a 10% chance of developing active tuberculosis every year.

  7. Tuberculous pericarditis - Wikipedia

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    In tuberculosis-endemic regions, tuberculous pericarditis accounts for 50-90% of cases of effusive pericarditis, depending on HIV status. [6] In developed countries, it only accounts for about 4% of cases. [6] Tuberculous pericarditis is a deadly disease with a mortality rate of up to 40% in the first 6 months after diagnosis. [6]

  8. Miliary tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Miliary tuberculosis is a form of tuberculosis that is characterized by a wide dissemination into the human body and by the tiny size of the lesions (1–5 mm). Its name comes from a distinctive pattern seen on a chest radiograph of many tiny spots distributed throughout the lung fields with the appearance similar to millet seeds—thus the term "miliary" tuberculosis.

  9. Tuberculin - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms of these reactions included a fever that was accompanied by vomiting, rigors, or other forms of constitutional symptoms. [6] After these symptoms became recurring in patients, Koch had noted how increasing dosages of the treatment over time resulted in quicker and more effective healing in the mild cases of tuberculosis, along with ...