Tuberculosis

A detailed Summary of Tuberculosis

Among us today there are thousands of diseases out in the world, most are curable, some don't even have names. Well by the end of this paper you should learn about one more disease called Tuberculosis that will help you understand more about the infectious agents that threaten our lives today and how to control them, especially Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is the increasingly spreading disease in the world and causes more deaths today then ever before. ( www. homepage.holowww.com) TB Global Emergency)) It kills 8,000 people a day that is 2-3 million people a year. It has surpassed the Aids community overall and is responsible for more deaths among the young and adults in the world today. ( www. homepage.holowww.com) TB Global Emergency))

To find out why Tuberculosis is causing all these problems you have to go to the source and find out what it is. Tuberculosis (TB), chronic or acute bacterial infection that primarily attacks the lungs. Tuberculosis is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (AMA) Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bacteria that is an obligate aerobe, rod shaped, acid fast, that has a characteristic mycolic acid cell wall. Generation time (time to create two bacteria from one) 18-24 hours Diagnostic

When a country of large magnitude gets infected how do they stop the cure? The answer is through industrialized countries like us. TB treatment costs around US $2,000 per patient, but rises more than 100-fold to up to US $250,000 per patient with MDR-TB. (MDR-TB is the multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains, defined as resistant to the two most important drugs, isoniazid and rifampicin) This goes through us the taxpayers or smaller organizations like the D.O.T.S. (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course). D.O.T.S produces cure rates of up to 95 percent even in the poorest countries. D.O.T.S prevents new infections and the development of MDR-TB. There effective procedure is to health and community workers and trained volunteers observe and record patients swallowing the correct dosage of anti-TB medicines for six to eight months. The most common anti-TB drugs are isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, streptomycin and ethambutol. (trc-chennai.org/dots.htm) The problem is funding and without it D.O.T.S can't stop the disease from spreading. Other techniques in curing the disease are in the Alternative Medicine. Countries back east are curing TB by herbalism, using antipyretics or febrifuges, herbs use to fight pathogens. Other treatments used are Naturopathy, which is the orthodox treatment of dieting on fresh fruits, limiting diary products. (Alternative Healthcare) These orthodox treatments can cause a cure but if not taken correctly with a doctor's permission can cause severe illness.

TB is usually transmitted by bacteria-carrying air droplets that

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