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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
inhibitors • Injection drug ... characteristic features Clinical ... Treatment: Active ... #Management #Treatment ... #ActiveTB #LatentTB
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
inhibitors • Injection drug ... characteristic features Clinical ... Treatment: Active ... #Management #Treatment ... #ActiveTB #LatentTB
Tuberculosis Testing

LATENT TB
• LTBI is diagnosed when an asymptomatic patient has a positive TST or IGRA
Tuberculosis Testing ... LATENT TB • ... tuberculosis ... #Latent #Active ... #LatentTB #ActiveTB
Factors to be considered in deciding to initiate treatment empirically for active tuberculosis (TB) (prior to
deciding to initiate treatment ... tuberculosis (TB ... #tuberculosis # ... initiation #management ... #IDSA
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in HIV-AIDS
Treating LTBI (to prevent TB disease)
Indications:
Tuberculosis Infection ... for active or latent ... #Tuberculosis # ... TB #IDSA #Prevention ... #Treatment #management
Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Epidemiology:
 - Typically from TB endemic areas
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Pott's Disease in Tuberculosis ... extrapulmonary cases Clinical ... signs/symptoms of active ... tuberculosis complex ... Potts #Disease #Tuberculosis
IDSA - Clinical Strategy to Build an Individualized Treatment Regimen for Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
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IDSA - Clinical ... Individualized Treatment ... Resistant Tuberculosis ... MultiDrugResistant #Tuberculosis ... #MDRTB #management
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Disseminated Mycobacterium Avium Complex in HIV-AIDS
Preventing 1st Episode of Disseminated
IDSA Recommendations ... disease based on clinical ... Note: Active TB ... #Prevention #Treatment ... #management #opportunistic
Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome - Overview of IRIS

What Is IRIS?
	• A state of hyperinflammatory response that
initiation Clinical ... effusions, CNS tuberculoma ... organizing PNA • Mycobacterium ... • Persistently active ... Differential #Diagnosis #Management