Category: Tuberculosis

Table of Contents Causes of TB Transmission Mode Symptoms Demographic and Environmental Setting Epidemiology Prevalences Mortality Health Determinants Based on Healthy People 2020 Role of Public Nurse References Regardless of extra efforts made to avoid TB, the disease has remained a primary public health concern across the world. Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne disease and…

Introduction and background information Tuberculosis is one of the communicable diseases that pose critical health concerns globally. Although there have been slight declines in tuberculosis prevalence over the last ten years, the disease is still a major cause of deaths with approximately 1.3 million fatalities and almost 9 million new infections reported in 2012 (Sulis,…

Tuberculosis The respiratory system is a system of organs that are responsible for gas exchange, such as transporting oxygen in and carbon dioxide out of our bodies. Parts of the respiratory system include nose and nasal cavity, sinuses, mouth, pharynx, larynx, trachea, diaphragm, lungs, bronchial tubes, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, and capillaries. The respiratory system can…

The definition of evolution according to the oxford dictionary is , The process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earlier forms during the history of the earth. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a pathogen which belongs to the Mycobacteriaceae family it is commonly known to cause tuberculosis. The question is…

ABSTRACT This audit on aspiratory tuberculosis incorporates an presentation that depicts how the lung is the entrance of section for the tuberculosis bacilli to enter the body and after that spread to the rest of the body. It depicted the mode of transmission and the pathogenesis of pneumonic tuberculosis. The safe reaction to the infection…

Introduction Tuberculosis as we know it is a chronic, contagious, infectious disease that attacks our lungs. Apart from pulmonary tuberculosis there are also spinal tuberculosis, meningeal tuberculosis as well as the main focus of this assignment, renal tuberculosis. According to MacKenzie (2018:620) renal tuberculosis usually begins in one kidney and then it progresses towards the…

INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis, is a pathology that caused by bacterial infection that spread by air between people. When it comes to lung, the medical term for this pathology are pulmonary tuberculosis. It may cause chest pain, severe coughing, weight loss and many more. Pulmonary tuberculosis is a worldwide problem which is can affected to all age,…

Abstract Tuberculosis is a disease once incurable but now it can be cured. It basically affects the lungs but other parts maybe effected. It can be treated now. Its symptoms include cough, fever, chills and mucus with blood. Vaccines are available to treat Tuberculosis which decreases the risk by 20% and 60% in children and…

Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that usually infects the lungs, but it can also affect the kidneys, brain, and other organs. The main TB bacterium is Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). This bacterium is spread by those who are infected in an airborne manner through droplets. The two main types of TB are latent…

Introduction It is eminently considered that many of us carry around multiple conceptions of identity. Identity is perceived as multifaceted and fluid, (Davis, 2012, p. 636) due to digitalization and globalization in this postmodern era. YouTube is a cultural form that highlights this concept of identity as multiple. YouTube is a global online platform, accumulating…