What is Tuberculosis? - Some Facts

What is tuberculosis?

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection caused by two species of Mycobacteria - Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Mycobacterium Bovis.

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Tuberculosis is a contagious, potentially fatal disease if it is not treated in a timely and proper manner.

The disease causing bacteria can attack any part of the human body, though usually the lungs succumb. The spine, kidney, alimentary canal and brain can also be attacked. The world over, TB has been one of the primary causes of death.

Some facts regarding what is tuberculosis

Persons with untreated tuberculosis will infect about 10 people annually on an average, thereby increasing rapidly the chances of the spread of the disease.

Not every person infected will manifest the disease if the immune system is healthy and can ward off the disease-causing bacillus.

Someone new is infected with TB bacilli every second.

Studies show that one third of the world’s population is infected with the TB bacillus.

People with HIV and TB infection are much more likely to develop TB.

What is tuberculosis which is drug resistant?

Drug resistance is the term used frequently in context to TB treatment medications, and refers to the condition when the TB causing bacteria develop resistance to at least one anti-TB drug, during or after the course of treatment.

This normally happens due to non-compliance of recommended regimen of drugs, or due to incorrect prescription by medical practitioners. Primary resistance is when drug resistance is prevalent in a patient that has never received anti-TB drugs.

Conventional medicine’s treatment of tuberculosis using drugs

MDR-TB is a dangerous form of drug resistant TB which is multi-drug resistant. In this scenario, the disease caused by TB bacilli is resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most powerful anti-TB drugs.

According to conventional medicine, drug-resistant TB is treatable, but it requires extensive chemotherapy (two years of treatment) with second-line anti-TB drugs. This is more expensive and may produce adverse drug reactions.

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