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Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Progression: • Upper lobe ... Tuberculosis Diagnosis ... Tuberculin skin test ... Active TB: • ... #Diagnosis #Management
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Progression: • Upper lobe ... Tuberculosis Diagnosis ... Tuberculin skin test ... Active TB: • ... #Diagnosis #Management
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
Testing LATENT TB ... • LTBI is diagnosed ... intermediate risk of disease ... used to exclude pulmonary ... #ActiveTB #InfectiousDiseases
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Infections 

Mycobacterial species other than those belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and
of right middle lobe ... Kansasii: • Mimics TB ... Diagnosis Of NTM ... #differential #diagnosis ... #infectiousdiseases
Anti-GIomeruIar Basement Membrane Disease (Goodpasture's Disease)

What is it? A small vessel vasculitis with circulating antibodies directed
hemorrhage Diagnosis ... sessions to clear active ... -3 weeks By Tess ... #Goodpastures #AntiGBM ... #pulmonary