Although tuberculosis is most well-known for causing a distinctive cough, there are other types of tuberculosis in which individuals don't experience the symptom at all. Two types of the disease don't produce a cough:Bone and joint TB and latent TB. Is there a vaccine for tuberculosis? Baci...
c. Antibiotics will help cure diseases caused by viruses.55. ___ prevent some diseases. a. There is no vaccine to b. You can have a vaccine injected into your arm to c. both a and b6.Tuberculosis spreads ___. a. by hand contact b. when people cough and sneeze C. when people ...
Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2015;5:CD003343. Context Directly observed therapy (DOT), a component of DOTS (directly observed therapy short course), is arguably one of the most successful public health programmes bringing a paradigm shift in ...
Directly observed therapy (DOT), a component of DOTS (directly observed therapy short course), is arguably one of the most successful public health programmes bringing a paradigm shift in curbing the deadly menace of tuberculosis (TB). Evidence shows that DOT improved adherence and cure rate ...
Is cholera a communicable disease? Is Behcet's disease contagious? What are the causes of schistosomiasis disease? Is leprosy an infectious disease? Is necrotizing fasciitis an infectious disease? Is typhoid a communicable disease? Is there a cure for schistosomiasis?
Is tuberculosis a bacterial or viral infection? Is the flu an animal virus? Is virology part of microbiology? Is giardiasis a caused by a protozoan? Is AIDS an RNA virus? Is the variola virus a retrovirus? Is meningitis an infectious disease?
There is only one licensedvaccinefor tuberculosis: the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. It was invented more than 100 years ago, and while it has saved millions of lives since, it has limitations. The BCG vaccine provides protection against the most severe forms of tuberculosis in childre...
This need grew to not only caring for the sick poor, but also to provide preventative services to babies, children, mothers, and to care for patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis. Although the death rate for infectious diseases had declined, there was a growing concern for ...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of Tuberculosis (TB), infects one third of the world’s population and causes substantial mortality worldwide. In its shortest format, treatment of TB requires six months of multidrug therapy with a mixture of broad spectrum and mycobacterial specific antibiotics...
Is there a vaccine for Mycobacterium tuberculosis? Is Mycobacterium tuberculosis motile? Is tuberculosis a type of pneumoconiosis? What is the causative agent of tuberculosis? What is the pathogenesis of mycobacterium tuberculosis? Explain the basic pathophysiology of tuberculosis. ...