Saturday, January 28, 2012

Can tuberculosis be cured if you're a carrier

Can tuberculosis be cured if you're a carrier?
If you have a medical career, and you're tuberculosis positive, can it be cured?
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if you test positive, what this means is that youve been exposed to the bacteria. what this test does not tell you is whether or not you have an active tb infection, an inactive infection, or youve been exposed but you are not currently infected. those are the 3 choices here and you have to either figure out which one it is with x rays or sputum tests or what happens most of the time with people in medicine, you just have to endure the treatment as if you have an active infection (even if it has not been determined whether the infection is present or not). in any case, if you have an inactive infection, which is what i think you are saying here, taking the anitbiotics cures you



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Posted by Tuberculosis at 11:00 AM

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Can I have sex when i have Tuberculosis

Can I have sex when i have Tuberculosis?
Hi I have been diagnosed with Pulmonary TB and I am now in treatment for a week, I was wondering if I could have sex with my girlfriend without her being infected?
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I wouldn't, you are still contagious even though you are being treated. Just to be on the safe side, no.
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Na sorry typical misconception. if you prohibit this, your Penis will Blow up
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no you have not been in treatment long enough
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Definitely not. Pulmonary TB is infection and you have been told this




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Posted by Tuberculosis at 11:00 AM

Friday, January 20, 2012

Where can i get free journal articles w/ an abstract for the topic tuberculosis

Where can i get free journal articles w/ an abstract for the topic tuberculosis?
this is for my science research class... if your wondering... i've already looked at nejm.org and jama.org please tell me more and include the site or where i can get them
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I found two repositories for journal articles that are supposed to be free... http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ Good Luck! If these don't work, then I think your best bet is either to 1) subscribe to Questia, or 2) make a trip to your closest university Your local library is also a possibility, but sometimes they don't have the selection that a university library will have



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Posted by Tuberculosis at 10:59 AM

Monday, January 16, 2012

what is the short term effects of tuberculosis

what is the short term effects of tuberculosis?
plz give me more details, and be specific. Plz answer for me this question
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If the tuberculosis wasn't active there shouldn't be any effects. If active tuberculosis actually eats away at your organs. It actually will cause cavities in the wall of your lungs. Sorry to scare you but I had tuberculosis. Luckily I caught it in time before it caused too much damage. If you suspect you may have it get to the doc ASAP



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Posted by Tuberculosis at 10:58 AM

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Bioluminescence genes are transferred to Myobacterium tuberculosis cells isolated from infected patients

Bioluminescence genes are transferred to Myobacterium tuberculosis cells isolated from infected patients?
in order to.... locate them in the patient. none of these cause them to become noninfective. kill them. identify an antibiotic effective against the strain.
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Identify the Antibiotic



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Posted by Tuberculosis at 10:57 AM

Sunday, January 8, 2012

how can a person with active tuberculosis live if untreated with medicine

how can a person with active tuberculosis live if untreated with medicine?
how long can a person live with untreated tuberculosis is what i ment i wrote the question wrong im just curious
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The answer is: this person should be under treatment. Tuberculosis is a infectious disease so this person is responsible if other people get infected.
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they need to be treated, and in some cases, they are isolated so they don't infect others. tuberculosis is a very contagious disease, and has caused many deaths- they need to be taken care of.
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It really depends on the strain of TB. But, whatever it is, it is highly irresponsible and even illegal to go untreated once you have been diagnosed with TB. Remember the case with that guy with a highly drug-resistant strain who got on a plane last year? Yeah, that's how it gets spread and kills people. Are you just curious or do you or someone you know have TB? Anyone who isn't treated is just as bad as someone who knows they have HIV and has unprotected sex.
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The other answers are correct. Life span of a person with untreated, active tuberculosis is quite variable. It would depend on age of the patient, overall health status, underlying diseases, nutritional status, etc.. Every person is different. Some strains of tuberculosis, such as drug-resistant, can be much more aggressive. Extra-pulmonary infection is a major negative factor. The initial level of infection definitely helps determine lifespan. A rapid onset of severe symptoms would suggest greatly limited lifespan. Minimal to mild initial infection would suggest a longer time. But, the infection can accelerate and intensify at any time



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Posted by Tuberculosis at 10:56 AM

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

HELP! is it impossible to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and M.Leprae work together form a new disease

HELP! is it impossible to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and M.Leprae work together form a new disease?
helppppp, please answer this. best answer 5 stars. is it impossible for they to work together and form a new disease as they are in same genus
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The Mycobacterium genus is quite broad, with many sub-groups of potentially pathogenic bacteria such as MAC complex, M. marinum, M. tuberculosis complex and M. leprae. Of these, those that cause leprosy and those that cause tuberculosis don't have that much in common and I think it is unlikely that they could interbreed naturally. It is possible but rare to be infected with both tuberculosis and leprosy. There is a lot of confusion over the relationship between them. It seems people with leprosy are more likely to get tuberculosis but people with tuberculosis are less likely to get leprosy. It is thought in the former case the patients may have had an immune defect that increased their likelihood of getting both, or the leprosy weakened the immune system and allowed the TB infection. Leprosy and tuberculosis bacteria share some immune characteristics so it is thought that TB might give some immunity to leprosy. It has even been speculated that the widespread prevalence of tuberculosis is the reason that leprosy is now so uncommon. In any case, it doesn't seem that having both infections at once creates any sort of new disease, but it is important to know when treating them



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Posted by Tuberculosis at 10:55 AM

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Can a person get tuberculosis by drinking after someone who has the disesas

Can a person get tuberculosis by drinking after someone who has the disesas?

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Like from the same water bottle? It's possible



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Posted by Tuberculosis at 10:55 AM
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