MYCOBACTERIUM

TUBERCULOSIS

PREDISPOSING FACTORS: PRECIPITATING FACTORS:

 Occupation / Environment
 AGE
 Poor Hygiene
 NATIONALITY
 Living in overcrowded areas
 Immunocompromised
 Severely Malnourished
 Repeated close contact with infected persons
 Lack of access to health care

Inhalation of droplet infected with

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (respiratory
tract lungs (alveoli))
bacteria and microphage become
Trapped first in the upper airways
necrotic

invasion of tubercle bacilli or

cavities filled with cheese-like mass of
mycobacterium tuberculosis on the
tubercle, dead WBCs and necrotic lung
top of the lungs
tissue are being produced

bronchopneumonia develops in the

lung tissue and mycobacterium in the tracheobronchial tress, the necrotic
tuberculosis are ingested materials are being drained

before hypersensitivity and immunity diffusion of O2 and CO2 are being

develops, many bacilli survived interfered by partial occlusion

occurrence of inadequate ventilation in the

bacilli that survived is carried into areas of the lungs
bronchopulmonary lymph nodes and may
even spread throughout the body
carrying capacity of oxygen is
decreased

inflammatory response occur

HYPOXIA dyspnea

pallor weakness fatigue tachycardia chest pain

tachypnea dizziness