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Tuberculosis is a disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB infects the lungs and could also infect other organs like kidneys, spine, or brain.

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Chronic cough or with blood, weight loss, night sweats, fever, and chest pain.

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If a person is positive for latent TB infection, your doctor will advice to take medications to reduce risk of developing active tuberculosis and this prevents it from becoming active. Only active TB is contagious.

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Persons with high risk of getting TB are persons with HIV, children younger than five years of age. Persons with untreated TB disease. Cigarette smokers and persons who abuse drugs or alcohol. Tuberculosis is acquired by bacteria that spreads from person to person through microscopic droplets released into the air. It happens when an untreated active TB cough, speaks, sneezes, spits, laughs, or sings.

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Infection happens when a person inhales droplet nuclei containing tubercle bacilli that reach the alveoli of the lungs. The tubercle bacilli that reach the alveoli of the lungs. The tubercle bacilli is then ingested by alveolar macrophages. The majority could be destroyed or inhibited. A small number may multiply and released when macrophages die. If its alive the bacilli spreads through the bloodstream tissues and organs where TB disease is most likely to develop.

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Antibiotic treatment for six to nine months and it depends on which works to eradicate your TB.