If you seat in a cold room for long periods, tendency is you will come out of that room coughing. If a patient with TB enters the room and remains with you in the room for 1 day, you will probably contract TB and start coughing in a few days.
Is TB important? Why?
Is it normal to contract TB?
If a person has TB, what are the possible signs and symptoms?
Can TB be cured? Yes? How?
Why is it we see people still coughing today? Dust? Cold? TB?
What are the causes of coughing?
How can we differentiate TB from normal coughing?
Some researchers worked on the TB organism and made a vaccine.
What is the TB organism? Is it a bacteria or virus? Does it make any difference?
How is the TB organism detected?
What is Acid-Fast Bacilli (AFB)?
What do you hope to see under the microscope if a sputum specimen comes from a patient with TB?
Would you expect to see bacteria or virus? Must it be one of this? Why is it neither?
What is a mycobacterium?
Say, you looked down the microscope tube and objective lens, and you saw some reddish bacterial rods like cocktail hotdogs.
Is the TB organism a bacterium? Gram -ve? Yes?
Alright, you would expect to see Gram -ve rods if the sputum comes from a patient who is diagnosed to have TB.
Have you heard of TB vaccine? Yes? No? Never heard?
What is a TB vaccine?
How is the TB vaccine prepared?
How long does it take to make a TB vaccine?
Have you heard of BCG?
Have you had your BCG? When was that?
What is the BCG?
How is the BCG vaccine prepared?
All kids who enter school for the first time get the BCG vaccination.
Is the BCG vaccination of any good?
Who made the BCG?
How effective is the BCG?
How many times must a person get the BCG?
Have you heard of the Mantoux (man-toooo) test? What is that?
What are today's drugs against TB, if any?
Why did TB make a comeback?
What is meant by MDR-TB?
How does the TB organism become resistant to the drugs we give to our patients?
Why don't patients comply with their treatment regime for TB?
Do you think we are wasting a lot of money trying to treat TB?
How much money do we need to treat TB today?
Why do we find TB among HIV patients?
Where do we find a lot of people with TB?
Where do we find a lot of people with HIV? Is there a likely TB-HIV link?
What can we do about TB and HIV today?
How does TB-HIV impact our society today?
Is air travel a sure way of spreading TB?
Are pressurised cabins a sure way of spreading TB?
Today's aeroplanes carry a lot of passengers and the seats are close together. Is this safe?
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