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    Tuberculosis (TB) is spread through the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks, or sings. It is not spread through casual contact like shaking hands or sharing food or drinks. Treatment involves taking multiple anti-TB drugs daily for at least 6 months. Completing the full treatment course is important to cure the infection. Prevention strategies include infection control, rapid diagnosis and treatment, BCG vaccination for infants in high-risk areas, and antiretroviral therapy for people with HIV/TB co-infection.

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    Tuberculosis (TB) is spread through the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks, or sings. It is not spread through casual contact like shaking hands or sharing food or drinks. Treatment involves taking multiple anti-TB drugs daily for at least 6 months. Completing the full treatment course is important to cure the infection. Prevention strategies include infection control, rapid diagnosis and treatment, BCG vaccination for infants in high-risk areas, and antiretroviral therapy for people with HIV/TB co-infection.

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    Tuberculosis (TB) is spread through the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks, or sings. It is not spread through casual contact like shaking hands or sharing food or drinks. Treatment involves taking multiple anti-TB drugs daily for at least 6 months. Completing the full treatment course is important to cure the infection. Prevention strategies include infection control, rapid diagnosis and treatment, BCG vaccination for infants in high-risk areas, and antiretroviral therapy for people with HIV/TB co-infection.

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    TUBERCULOSIS

    BY ANTONY & JENEIFER


    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    01 02
    TRANSMISSION TREATMENT

    03
    PREVENTION
    TRANSMISSION

    TB bacteria are spread through the air from one person to


    another.

    The TB bacteria are put into the air when a person with TB
    disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks, or sings. 

    TB is NOT spread by:


    • shaking someone’s hand
    • sharing food or drink
    • touching bed linens or toilet seats
    • sharing toothbrushes
    • kissing
    1. 2.

    Tubercle bacilli Tubercle bacilli


    enter multiply

    3. 4.
    macrophages ingest
    and surround the
    TB spread tubercle bacilli
    to the body
    5.

    The bacilli begin to


    multiply rapidly (TB disease).
    Treatment (Latent TB and drug-resistant TB)
    A. TB Drugs B. Medication Side efffecs C. Treatment Completion

    If you have latent Serious side effects of TB After a few weeks, you won’t
    tuberculosis, you may need drugs aren’t common but can be contagious and you may
    to take only one or two be dangerous when they do start to feel better. It might be
    types of TB drug. occur. tempting to stop taking your
    TB drugs.
    Active tuberculosis, All tuberculosis medications
    particularly if it’s a drug- can be highly toxic to your But it is crucial that you finish
    resistant strain, will require liver. the full course of therapy and
    several drugs at once: take the medications exactly
    Nausea or vomiting as prescribed by your doctor.
    Isoniazid Loss of appetite
    Rifampin A yellow color to your skin
    Ethambutol (jaundice)
    • Pyrazinamide Dark urine
    • A fever that lasts three or
    more days and has no
    obvious cause
    Preventions
    PREVENTION

    1. Involve patients & 6. Rapid TB diagnosis and


    community in advocacy treatment
    campaigns
    7. Improve room air
    2. Infection control plan ventilation

    3. Safe sputum collection 8. Protect health care


    workers
    4. Cough etiquette and
    cough hygiene 9. Capacity building

    5. Triage TB suspects to 10. Monitor infection


    fast tract or separation control practices.
    TREATMENT

    Isoniazid preventive
    therapy (IPT)

    Bacillus Calmette-Guerin
    (or BCG) vaccine

    Antiretroviral therapy
    (ART) for people with
    HIV
    ALTERNATIVE RESOURCES
    ● https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/howtbspreads.htm
    ● https://www.cdc.gov/tb/education/corecurr/pdf/chapter2.pdf
    ● https://tbfacts.org/tb-prevention/
    ● https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tuberculosis/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20351256
    ● https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/tbinfectiondisease.htm
    ● https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.who.int/tb/challenges/hiv/07_tb_pr
    evention_diagnosis_and_treatment_eng.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiEtp3w8c7uAhX0jOYKHRtlCdsQFjAIegQIL
    BAB&usg=AOvVaw0DOtzz0icyrCrSNEZZW9fv

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