Tuberculosis : Complications
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Complications could include:
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Tuberculous fibrosis of lung
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially fatal contagious disease that can affect almost any part of the body but is mainly an infection of the lungs. It is caused by a bacterial microorganism, the tubercle bacillus or Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Altho...
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially fatal contagious disease that can affect almost any part of the body but is mainly an infection of the lungs . It is caused by a bacterial microorganism: the tubercle bacillus or Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Alth...
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Tuberculosis is a chronic, infectious disease that primarily attacks the lungs.
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Tuberculous meningitis is an infection of the meninges (the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. It is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
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Meningitis is the most common serious manifestation of infection of the central nervous system (CNS). Inflammatory involvement of the subarachnoid space with meningeal irritation leads to the classic triad of headache, fever and meningism, and to a pleocytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
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Disseminated tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial infection that has spread from the lungs to other organs of the body by the blood or lymph system. See also: Tuberculosis - pulmonary
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Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial infection that mainly involves the lungs, but may spread to other organs.
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