Social Affects of Tuberculosis SOC 313 Social Affects of Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that mostly affects the lung. While tuberculosis is infectious and contagious it is preventable and curable. Even with updated information about this disease there still seems to be a stigma surrounding tuberculosis. Many people believe that tuberculosis is incurable. People also believe that if they come into contact with a person with TB then they will automatically contract TB as
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Tuberculosis is a common‚ and in many cases lethal‚ infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria‚ usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs‚ but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough‚ sneeze‚ or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air. Most infections are asymptomatic and latent‚ but about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease
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Tuberculosis (TB) causes 1.4 million deaths every year (Dash‚ 2013). Misuse of anti-tuberculosis drugs and late detection and/or diagnosis has contributed to the emergence of drug-resistant TB (Dash‚ 2013). Drug resistant tuberculosis is referred to as either multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)‚ or extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB)‚ both of which create obstacles for successful treatment (Lehne‚ 2013). Lehne (2013) defines MDR-TB as a TB that does not respond to either isoniazide or rifampin. XDR-TB
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Infectious diseases have the potential to be easily transmitted within prisons due to close contact between inmates. Tuberculosis (TB) has been and currently still is one of the most threatening infectious diseases worldwide. This can be seen through the numbers‚ which categorize it as one of the largest causes of morbidity and mortality. Over the years it has become evident that prisons have become breeding grounds for diseases such as this. Around the world TB prevalence among prisoners is substantially
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Infection Control Policy 2011; Appendix D‚ Clinical Care Protocol 26 Protocol for the care of patients with tuberculosis Policy Profile Policy Reference: Version: Author: Executive sponsor: Target audience: Date issued: Review date: Consultation Key individuals and committees consulted during drafting Clin.2.0 Appendix D Clinical care protocol 26 3.0 Juliana Kotey‚ Senior Infection Control Nurse Director of Infection Prevention and Control All Trust Staff 16 October 2012 September 2015 Infection
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Hansen’s disease‚ is a chronic‚ infectious disease that mainly affects the skin‚ mucous membranes‚ and nerves. A rod shaped bacillus named Mycobacterium leprea‚ causes the virus. Mycobacterium leprea is very similar to the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. The reason Leprosy is also known as Hansen’s disease‚ is because it was first identified in 1874 by a Norwegian physician named Gerhard Henrik Armeur Hansen. Leprosy appears in both the Old and New Testaments. In the bible Leprosy was not the
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Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by a germ (bacterium) called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This germ primarily affects the lungs and may infect anyone at any age. In the United States‚ the number of TB cases steadily decreased until 1986 when an increase was noted; TB has continued to rise since. Today‚ ten million individuals are infected in the U.S.‚ as evidenced by positive skin tests‚ with approximately 26‚000 new cases of active disease each year. The increase
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The Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis Pneumonia and tuberculosis have been plaguing the citizens of the world for centuries causing millions of deaths. This occurred until the creation and use of antibiotics become more widely available. These two respiratory infections have many differences‚ which include their etiology‚ incidence and prevalence‚ and many similarities in their objective and subject indicators‚ medical interventions‚ course‚ rehabilitation and effects
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meaning they will retain stains even on treatment with a mixture of acid and alcohol. They are weakly gram positive. Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is a serious chronic pulmonary and systemic disease caused most often by M. tuberculosis. The source of transmission is humans with active tuberculosis who release mycobacteria present in sputum. Oropharyngeal and intestinal tuberculosis contracted by drinking milk contaminated with M. bovis is rare in countries where milk is routinely pasteurized‚ but it
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10:30-12:50 4/1/2012 Reflection Paper I decided to do my project on pulmonary tuberculosis because a disease that can be transmissible from human to human through a simple talk‚ sneeze‚ or cough seemed to interest me. Also‚ as I was growing up‚ the TB test I was given during my physicals scared me to death because I didn’t know what the nurses were putting into my arm until now. Doing this project made me realize what tuberculosis really was and that it was a bacteria that kept mutating to stay resistant
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