Tuberculosis, or TB, has been treated in a variety of ways since the first treatment in Germany in 1863. The early method of the lung disease was to place a patient in a sanitarium far from the crowds and cities. In the United States, the first...
Tuberculosis is a contagious respiratory disease caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. According to the Mayo Clinic, typical tuberculosis manifestations include a fever, night sweats, coughing up blood (hemoptysis), a poor appetite...
Tuberculosis is a lung disease that is easily spread through the air. Treatment typically takes at least nine months, and consists of taking one or more medications. These medications have side effects that can affect your nutritional status. In...
Tuberculosis is one of the main causes of death and disease worldwide, with approximately 1.5 million deaths each year, according to Edward Nardell, M.D., Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School in “The Merck Manual for Healthcare...
Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The "American Family Physician" reported in 2008 that an estimated one-third of the world's population, including more than 11 million people in the...
The treatments for active mycobacterium tuberculosis, referred to as M. TB, consist of four drug therapy regimens given over six to nine months. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the Food and Drug Administration has approved...
Tuberculosis, or TB, is a serious disease which most commonly affects the lungs, but can attack anywhere in the body. Tuberculosis in the lungs is called pulmonary tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization, a person can be infected...
Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis is a condition in which the infection of the patient's lungs spreads to other parts of her body. The lymph nodes are affected and the bacteria spreads to bones, soft tissue and organs. This disease process can...
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that most commonly affects the pulmonary system. It is highly contagious and spread by individuals with active tuberculosis disease. Symptoms of active tuberculosis include chronic cough, chest pain and...
Tuberculosis is a disease that affects the lungs, kidneys, spine and brain. It is caused by a bacterium known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis can be treated with antibiotics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention list 10...
Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease that primarily affects the lungs and is spread through the cough, sneeze or saliva of an infected person. The disease is highly contagious and although eradicated, it has made a comeback due to antibiotic...
Tuberculosis refers to a chronic lung problem in which the mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria leads to coughing up blood, unintentional weight loss, trouble breathing, chest pain and wheezing. Additional symptoms include fatigue, fever and...
The first anti-tuberculosis drugs were developed 70 years ago and despite a significant decline of numbers of infected people, tuberculosis, a multi-organ infectious disease, still affects 2 billion people worldwide. In 2009, it caused the death...
According to the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute, fragments found in the spinal column of Egyptian mummies in 2400 B.C. showed signs of tuberculosis (TB). The institute notes this disease of epidemic proportions was finally...
Tuberculosis, according to the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, kills over 2 million people every year. Approximately 33 percent of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis, and although it is an ancient disease,...
Tuberculosis, an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, continues to be a disease of concern as it kills nearly 2 million people every year, according to the Mayo Clinic. Treatment for tuberculosis is usually 6 to 9...
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization, 2 billion people are infected with tuberculosis, and 1.8 million people died of tuberculosis-related illnesses...
Isoniazid (isonicotinylhydrazine or INH), is a medication administered as a first line of defense against tuberculosis, a disease which infects nearly one-third of the world's population, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
Tuberculosis -- a bacterial infection caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis -- usually affects your lungs, although it can also injure other areas of your body. The Medline Medical Encyclopedia states that tuberculosis is passed from...
As of 2008 there were a little over 33 million people living with advanced human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV/AIDS, according to the World Health Organization. As HIV progresses it can leave the body vulnerable to other forms of infections...
A tuberculosis infection can become fatal if left untreated. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, prior to the discovery of specific antibiotic drugs in the 1940s, tuberculosis was the number one cause of death in the United...
Chronic diseases refer to those that are persistent and long lasting and that may develop slowly rather than rapidly, such as acute diseases. Communicable diseases, also known as infectious diseases, are those that can be acquired from humans and...
Tuberculosis is a contagious disease that primarily affects the pulmonary system and causes a chronic cough, chest pain and sometimes the coughing up of blood. People with an active infection can infect others by coughing, sneezing, and talking....
According to the Centers for Disease Control, you can be infected with the bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that cause tuberculosis but not be sick, show symptoms or be contagious to others. This is because the bacteria has not become active....
Tuberculosis, or TB, is a bacterial disease which occurs in latent and active forms. A person with latent TB may have no symptoms but is carrying the TB bacteria in his respiratory system. A person with active TB is infectious to others and may...
Tuberculosis is a respiratory disease caused by a bacterial infection. According to the U.K. health information website NetDoctor, 25 percent of deaths in Europe during the 19th century were caused by tuberculosis. Although the number of deaths...
Isoniazid is an oral medication prescribed to prevent the onset of tuberculosis. Your doctor would prescribe this medication after a positive tuberculosis test -- or latent tuberculosis. Your doctor prescribes this drug for a period of at least...
Rifampin and vitamin B-6 are both sometimes used during treatment for tuberculosis in children, but they typically are not prescribed together as the sole treatment. Instead, each may be part of a larger treatment regimen. The specific decision of...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tuberculosis affects one-third of the world's population with nine million people becoming sick each year. Some of the drugs that treat tuberculosis deplete the body of pyridoxine....
Tuberculosis, or TB, is a dangerous infectious disease commonly targeting the lungs and caused by mycobacteria. Learn more about TB including treatments and symptoms in this medical video.