Tuberculosis diagnosis

Tuberculosis diagnosis,

can only be made by culturing,

Mycobacterium, tuberculosis, organisms,

from a specimen,taken from the patient,

(most often sputum, but may also

include pus, CSF, biopsied tissue, etc.).

any other, may only, be classified, as

"probable" or "presumed".

For the Tuberculosis diagnosis, infection, most protocols,

Clusters

require, that two separate, cultures, both test negative.

Microbiological, studies, distinctive, clusters, of colorless,

Mycobacterium,TB, form in this culture.A complete, medical, evaluation, for(TB), must include,

a medical history, a physical examination, a chest X-ray,

and microbiological, examination.

It may also include, a tuberculin skin test, other scans, and

X-rays, surgical biopsy.

Medical evaluation for T.B.

The medical history, includes, obtaining the symptoms of

pulmonary, TB,: productive, prolonged cough, of three or more

weeks, chest pain, and hemoptysis.

Systemic symptoms, include, low grade, remittent fever, chills,

night sweats, appetite loss, weight loss, easy fatiguability,

and production, of sputum, that starts out, mucoid, but changes

to purulent,other parts of the medical history, include prior

TB exposure, infection or disease; past TB treatment;

demographic, risk factors, for TB; and medical conditions, that

increase risk, for TB, disease, such as HIV, infection.

Lesions may appear anywhere in the Lung

lesions, may appear anywhere in the lungs.

In disseminated, TB, a pattern of many tiny nodules,

throughout the lung fields is common,it is called miliary, TB.

In HIV, and other immunosuppressed, persons,with any

abnormality, may indicate, TB, or the chest X-ray, may even

appear entirely normal.

Abnormalities,on chest radiographs,may be suggestive,

but are never TB, however, chest radiographs may be used to

rule out the possibility of pulmonary, TB, in a person, who has a

positive reaction, to the tuberculin, skin test, and no

symptoms of disease.

Chest x-ray

cavitation,or consolidation, of the apexes, of the upper lobes,

of the lung, may be discernible, by a chest x-ray.

When someone, is diagnosed, with TB, all their close contacts,

should be screened, for TB, with a tuberculin, skin test,

or a chest x-ray, or both.
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