What Are The 4 Most Common Strains Of Tuberculosis In Humans?
Tuberculosis is one of the most complex diseases growing in incidence across 22 top risk countries in the world. It is increasingly affecting different areas of the human body. Although treatable, this disease can affect individuals at any time and occurs mostly in damp climates. TB as tuberculosis is known popularly among the medical fraternity and pathologists in Kolkata, is a disease that affects lungs, lymph nodes and skeletal system or even the brain. There are some drug resistant forms of tuberculosis that may cause death and cannot be treated completely. TB can be divided into two kinds of illnesses such as pulmonary and extra pulmonary.
4 Common pulmonary kinds of TB diagnosed by Pathologists in Kolkata:
1.Primary Tuberculosis Pneumonia: This is a very uncommon kind of TB that causes pneumonia and is very infectious. Most patients who are suffering from this disease have a high fever and a productive cough that doesn’t go easily. This disease is most commonly seen in very young children and the elderly. This disease also strikes patients with immuno-suppression or those having HIV-AIDS. Some other patients who are on long term corticosteroid therapy also face this problem.
2.Tuberculosis Pleurisy: This is a kind of tuberculosis that develops soon after initial infection. There is a granuloma that is located at the edge of the lung and when it ruptures in the pleural space, the space between the lungs and the chest wall, infection strikes. When the bacteria invade this space, the amount of fluids increase and cause shortness of breathing also known as dyspnea.
3.Cavitary Tuberculosis: This kind of tuberculosis affects the upper lobes of the lung and the infecting bacteria cause progressive lung destruction and forms cavities and enlarged air pockets. This is a kind of TB that occurs in the reactivation stage and symptoms include productive cough, night sweats and weight loss along with weakness. Cavitary TB is highly contagious and can spread to the pleural space causing TB empyema or pus in pleural fluid.
4.Miliary Tuberculosis: Miliary TB is describes the appearance of small nodules throughout the lungs that appear as millet seeds. Military TB can occur shortly and the patient becomes very ill with high fever and weight loss. The top pathologists in Kolkata often diagnose Miliary TB after some sputum and x rays of the lungs and the thorax.
4 Common pulmonary kinds of TB diagnosed by Pathologists in Kolkata:
1.Primary Tuberculosis Pneumonia: This is a very uncommon kind of TB that causes pneumonia and is very infectious. Most patients who are suffering from this disease have a high fever and a productive cough that doesn’t go easily. This disease is most commonly seen in very young children and the elderly. This disease also strikes patients with immuno-suppression or those having HIV-AIDS. Some other patients who are on long term corticosteroid therapy also face this problem.
2.Tuberculosis Pleurisy: This is a kind of tuberculosis that develops soon after initial infection. There is a granuloma that is located at the edge of the lung and when it ruptures in the pleural space, the space between the lungs and the chest wall, infection strikes. When the bacteria invade this space, the amount of fluids increase and cause shortness of breathing also known as dyspnea.
3.Cavitary Tuberculosis: This kind of tuberculosis affects the upper lobes of the lung and the infecting bacteria cause progressive lung destruction and forms cavities and enlarged air pockets. This is a kind of TB that occurs in the reactivation stage and symptoms include productive cough, night sweats and weight loss along with weakness. Cavitary TB is highly contagious and can spread to the pleural space causing TB empyema or pus in pleural fluid.
4.Miliary Tuberculosis: Miliary TB is describes the appearance of small nodules throughout the lungs that appear as millet seeds. Military TB can occur shortly and the patient becomes very ill with high fever and weight loss. The top pathologists in Kolkata often diagnose Miliary TB after some sputum and x rays of the lungs and the thorax.
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