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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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