What is tuberculosis?

What is the cause for Tuberculosis. How long after exposure can the doctor find out wether or not the patient is positive or negative? How the doctor will diagnos on a human generally. What are the symptoms and what causes Tuberculosis?

What is the average life expectancy of someone who has had latent tuberculosis infection since they were two years old and as a result has had active tuberculosis disease? What is the life expectancy if the person with LTBI doesn't take their medicine...

john is an american who works in south sudan on a programm of community health, he visited certain village came a cross bed ridden man far away from capital Juba. So he decided to take him to hospital but he was worried of whether he was infected with...

how to cure pulmonary tuberculosis? how many months is the curing period? how can a patient with positive pulmonary tuberculosis survive?

Hi there, I'm doing a biology project on tuberculosis and I can't find any information over the internet what tells me the short term effects of tuberculosis. Can you please help me? Thanks.

The reason I ask this is because i have a 4 yr old little boy that sometimes goes to see his papa and i saw where if someone has protein in the fluid from the lungs then it could mean that they have tuberculosis. Does this mean that my little boy could...

wats the treatment duration and is it sure that person came positive with latent tuberculosis will suffer from TB in future. Also, is latent tuberculosis communicable?

Tuberculosis and leprosy are caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae, respectively. Leprosy is classified based on a patient's symptoms as "lepromatous leprosy" and "tuberculoid leprosy"...are both of these forms...

I know this is like 3 questions in one but... yeah.... So, got a challenge from a friend in my writing class to rewrite several movies (as novellizations for our eyes only) and 'make them better.' She's a sucker for happy endings, yada yada. But in one...