What is it?
How is it spread?
Diagnosis
Symptoms
Treatment
100
One-third of the world has this infection
LTBI
100
The time frame during which a person with TB is capable of spreading the disease
Infectious period
100
The physician who discovered the cause of TB
Robert Koch
100
A person with LTBI who has a cough for 3 weeks and weight loss
A TB Suspect or TB 5
100
Disease frequently associated with low serum anti-TB drug levels
Diabetes mellitus
200
Most widely used vaccine in the world
BCG
200
Person with prolonged, frequent or intense exposure to a person with PTB
Contact
200
Inability to react to skin test antigens due to a weakened immune system
Anergy
200
Phase of TB in which the individual feels ill
Active
200
A strategy used to help TB patients adhere to medication and to learn of adverse side effects
Directly Observed Therapy
300
TB which comes on soon after TB infection
Primary TB
300
Very small droplets, 1-5 micron in diameter, which can be suspended in air for hours
Droplet nuclei
300
The time between becoming infected with TB and the demonstration of an immune reponse to it
Window Period
300
The coughing up of blood
Hemoptysis
300
First line anti-TB drug used to prevent emerging Rifampin resistance when INH resistance may be present
Ethambutol
400
Includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis, bovis, africanum, microti, canetti
M TB Complex
400
TB disease which is spread throughout the body
Miliary or Disseminated TB
400
Testing of groups in which the rate of TB infection is substantially higher than the general population
Targeted Testing
400
Swelling of lymph node
Lymphadenopathy
400
First line anti-TB drugs which elevate the serum uric acid level
Pyrazinamide and Ethambutol
500
Last drug approved by FDA for Tx TB Disease
Bedaquiline
500
A biologic agent used to treat rheumatoid arthritis which accelerates progression to TB disease
TNF-blocker or Embrel
500
The latest tool approved by the World Health Organization to Dx TB disease
Xpert MTB/ Rif Assay
500
Collection of fluid in the chest cavity
Pleural effusion
500
In 1948, this was the first effective drug to be used to treat TB disease
Streptomycin
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