Genital tuberculosis is a rare form of tuberculosis that affects the genital organs. It can affect both men and women and may cause pain, swelling, and ulcers in the genital area. It is also possible to develop a discharge from the vagina or penis. Genital TB can spread through skin-to-skin contact with an infected person or sexual intercourse What are the symptoms of TB? The general symptoms of TB disease include feelings of sickness or weakness, weight loss, fever, and night sweats. The symptoms of TB disease of the lungs also include coughing, chest pain, and coughing up blood. Symptoms of TB disease in other parts of the body depend on the area afected How is tuberculosis spread? The tubercle bacillus is spread person-to-person almost exclusively by aerosolized particles. The size of infectious droplets from Mtb in infected patients ranges from (small) to > μm (medium–large) [].While small Mtb aerosol particles are expected to transit past the nasopharyngeal or tracheobronchial
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In HIV-infected TB patients, TB often affects more than one organ, and pulmonary and extra-pulmonary TB commonly coexist. What is the rationale for prompt diagnosis? The systematic and early identification in adults with a persistent cough lasting two weeks or more, among outpatients in health facilities at the workplace can detect a large Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) that most often affect the lungs. Tuberculosis is curable and preventable. TB is spread
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Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Mycobacterium. The disease affects practically all species of vertebrates, and, before control measures were adopted, was a major disease of people and domestic animals. Signs and lesions are generally similar in the various species. Although commonly defined as a longterm TB is difficult to diagnose in camelids on clinical examination alone. Camelids infected with M. bovis may not show any clinical signs, and if they do, those signs are common to many other diseases. Furthermore, the incubation period of the disease is highly variable and can range from a few months to many years, in which infected animals do not exhibit any