Infection - TB Flashcards
(97 cards)
Distribution of TB
95% of cases occur in developing ountries.
Overall Incidence of TB
- > 8 million new cases
- Annual death rate > 3 million worldwide.
Agr in TB
- Most commonly in Children < 5 years & young adults
- 5 - 14 years → Golden age “lowest rate of incidence”
Sex in TB
No gender difference
Causative Organism sin TB
Characters of TB Bacilli
Characters of TB Bacilli
- Type
Characters of TB Bacilli
- Gram Stain
Weak gram positive
Characters of TB Bacilli
- Special Stains
Ziehl-Neelsen stain High
- acid-fast bacilli appear pink » Hallmark for mycobacteria
Characters of TB Bacilli
- Culture Media
Löwenstein Jensen medium
Characters of TB Bacilli
- Mech. Of Resistance
- Remains viable in airborne droplet nuclei and soil
- Able to survive in acidic & alcohol
MOT of TB
- TB infection & disease usually develop by inhalation of TB droplet
- +ve skin test without symptoms or chest X-ray signs “latent TB”
Progression to symptomatic TB occurs only in 5% in the first 2 years of life
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Risk Factors to TB
Immunological Response to TB
Pathogenesis of TB
Fate of TB Primary Complex
Fate of TB Primary Complex
- regression
Fate of TB Primary Complex
- Early Progression
Fate of TB Primary Complex
- Lymphohematogenous dissemination
CP of TB
CP of TB
- Pulmonary
- Primary pulmonary TB
- Reactivation pulmonary TB
CP of TB
- Extrapulmonary TB
- Lymph node disease
- Lymphohematogenous disease
- CNS
- Skin
- Skeletal
- Abdominal & GIT
- Genitourinary