Question

Write a note on tuberculosis?

Answer 1

TB usually affects the lungs, although it can spread to other organs around the body. Doctors make a distinction between two kinds of tuberculosis infection: latent and active. ... They cause no symptoms and are not contagious, but they can become active.

It is caused by the mycobacterium tuberculosis in any organ of the body but involvement in the extra pulmonary sites like breast, spleen, skeletal muscles is very rare. ... It is also called as phthisis pulmonalis.It is a wide spread and fatal infectious disease typically attacks the lungs and also other parts of the body.