tuberculosis. But if you look it up on the Internet, it says that tuberculosis is cause by mycobacteria.
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it's all a matter of semantics... they say "cause" but what is meant is that the medication has left some test subjects "open" to infection by TB, that's all.
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These medications can cause people's immune systems to weaken while they are taking them. If a patient already has the mycobacteria that causes tuberculosis (due to prior tuberculosis exposure), it could take advantage the opportunity to create widespread infection while the immune system defenses are weakened. Tuberculosis is an "opportunistic" pathogen that lives within certain types of white blood cells. They can live with us our whole life. In fact, tuberculosis is one of the most successful pathogens out there. Approximately 2 billion people are infected, and it kills 2 million people a year. Crazy.
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lowersya immune sytem to counter-act rheuma toid arthritis.sooooooooooooooooo ya may be risk for many diseases,viruses and TB
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Many of the medicines you're referring to ,like those which provide relief from rheumatoid arthritis symptoms, are essentially immunosuupressants, that is they lower the ability of the body to fight certain infections
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