Tuberculosis: a very important and very common mycobacterial disease ...">
Tuberculosis: a very important and very common mycobacterial disease
Influence of the AIDS epidemic
Airborne transmission is the most common
Involving the lungs or extrapulmonary
Primary infection, reinfection or reactivation due to immunosuppression
Diagnosis preferably by Ziehl staining (fast) and sometimes via culture (delayed result)
Treatment with drug combinations: INH, RMP, EMB, STM, PZA
Increasing problem with multiresistant bacteria (= resistant to at least INH+RMP)
