Names
The scientific name of the disease this pathogen causes.
What is Tuberculosis?
TB bacteria usually attacks the _____, but can attack any part of the body such as the kidney, spine, and brain.
What is the lungs?
People with a very low risk of exposure usually only need TB testing this many times.
What is once?
True or False: TB can be spread by shaking hands or sharing dishes.
What is false?
True or False: TB cases in the U.S. have been steadily decreasing every year since 1993.
False (cases increased in 2022, 2023, and 2024)
This two-letter abbreviation is the most common name for the disease this pathogen causes.
What is TB?
Without proper treatment, TB disease can be ______.
What is fatal?
People with continued risk of TB exposure should be tested this often.
What is annually?
TB is different from a lot of other illnesses because it spreads this way.
What is through the air (airborne)?
CDC estimates that up to this many people in the U.S. have latent (inactive) TB infection.
What is 13 million people?
Another name for the pathogen derived from the German physician who discovered it.
What is Koch's Bacillus? (Discovered by Robert Koch in 1882)
With adequate treatment, the prognosis for most people with TB disease is this.
What is full recovery and cure?
Tuberculosis is treated with ____.
What is antibiotics?
Some everyday activities during which a person with active Tuberculosis can spread the pathogen include _____, ____, and _____.
What are coughing, sneezing, and speaking?
In the provisional data for 2024, the U.S. reported this many active TB cases.
What are 10,347 cases?
This 19th-century name was used because of how it "consumed" the body of a person infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
What is Consumption?
These are four common symptoms of active TB disease, according to the CDC.
What are: cough lasting ≥ 3 weeks; coughing up sputum or blood; chest pain; unexplained weight loss; fever; night sweats; fatigue? (Any four)
When treating TB disease, therapy length can vary, but the shortest standard regimen lasts this many months.
What is 4 months?
People with this type of TB infection do not spread the disease.
What is latent TB infection?
According to the CDC, approximately this many people die from TB worldwide each year.
What is approximately 1.25 million people?
This name, meaning "destroyed palace," was used in Ancient China to describe the disease this pathogen causes.
What is Hyaifu?
When TB spreads to the spine, it causes this condition.
What is Pott's disease?
The four-course first-line drugs for TB treatment are rifampin, pyrazinamide, ethambutol, and this drug (used in several regimens for latent TB infection)
What is isoniazid?
These tiny airborne particles, only about 1-5 microns wide, are what carry TB bacteria.
What are droplet nuclei?
In January 2025, the most recent TB outbreak was reported in this U.S. city.
What is Kansas City, Kansas?