Predisposing Factors: Etiology: Precipitating Factors:

Infection by any one of the

a. Age Φ following: a. Immunocom-
b. Gender Φ Mycobacterium promised state
c. Race Φ tuberculosis, b. Exposure to people
d. Poverty Mycobacterium bovis, with PTB
e. Smoking Φ Mycobacterium africanum, c. History of PTB
Mycobacterium canetti,
and Mycobacterium microti

Through:

Reactivation of latent Local spread from Ingestion of

PTB due to surrounding organs Ingestion of infected unpasteurized milk
immunocompromised involved by PTB sputum from infected
state infection animals

Bacteria invades the intestinal S/Sx:

mucosa
fever
night sweats

They lodge into the crypts of the

mucosal glands