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DEFINITION
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by tuberculosis Micobacteryum. Normally primarily affects the lungs but can spread into other organs.

CAUSES
Anyone can be affected by this infection, the disease spreads through the air by tiny droplets of secretions from coughing or sneezing of people infected with tuberculosis Micobacteryum. To spread of tuberculosis must have frequent contact, family, or living with infected people. It is very rare to get a casual for a casual contact in the street.
Once the bacteria gets into the lung to form a granuloma, which is the primary infection of tuberculosis, this process produces no symptoms and 95% of cases recover without further problems alone. The TB bacteria and goes to a dormant phase locked in a granuloma. If for any reason (other infections, AIDS, cancer, stress, etc …) the body’s defenses weaken the bacteria become active and produce the disease.

SYMPTOMS
In principle, the onset of the disease is usually with pulmonary involvement and symptoms are:
* Cough persistently weak
* Fever of 38 º C
* Constant tiredness
* Weight loss
* Night sweats
* Loss of appetite
The symptoms go quite unnoticed except the great fatigue that is striking.

TREATMENT
It uses a combination of rifampicin, isoniazid and pyrazinamide for one year. Some of them can be replaced by alternatives, but the bad association or poor compliance with treatment is the cause of the worst complications of tuberculosis. With proper treatment and cure TB patients recover fully.

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