Friday, April 4, 2008

What can you tell me about the medical points of tuberculosis


What can you tell me about the medical points of tuberculosis?
Please tell me what you know about tuberculosis doctors and TB victims alike it would be greatly appreciated.
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Tuberculosis is a chronic, progressive infection with a period of latency following initial infection. It occurs most commonly in the lungs. Pulmonary symptoms include productive cough, chest pain, and dyspnea. Diagnosis is by sputum culture and smear. Treatment is with multiple antimicrobial agents. Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is defined as TB that is resistant at least to isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP). Isolates that are multiply-resistant to any other combination of anti-TB drugs but not to INH and RMP are not classed as MDR-TB. Please see the web pages for more details on Tuberculosis



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