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Tuberculos
Tuberculos
Tuberculos
Winter epidemics
• An RNA virus
Influenza A virion: 120 nm
• Sub-types due to two surface proteins:
neuraminidase
(glycoprotein)
200 per virion
Nucleoprotein +
Single stranded RNA
(8 segments)
Influenza virus subtypes
Very common viral infection of man, pigs and birds
Nucleoprotein +
Single stranded RNA
(8 segments)
Influenza virus clinical manifestations
• Confirm diagnosis
• Nasopharyngeal swab for
immunofluorescence or PCR
• Only necessary in high risk patients /
hospitalised
Influenza virus management
Pneumonia
• Short history
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Subacute lung infections
Subacute infections
• Longer history
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Pneumonia versus subacute lung infection the differences
Community-acquired
Subacute pneumonias
Pneumonia (CAP)
30% world population have latent infection 10 million people with active infection
• No environmental source:
specific human pathogen
• Sub- M. tuberculosis:
• M. bovis
• M. africanus
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis the cause of TB
• -
(NTM)
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis
• Intracellular pathogen
Increased if:
• Increasing age
• Malnutrition
Clinical syndromes:
• Emigration
• Pulmonary TB
• Steroids
• Lymph node TB
• HIV
• Pleural TB
• Anti-TNF treatment
• Pericaridal TB
• Miliary TB
• TB meningitis
• Bone and joint TB
• GI tract TB
• Genito-urinary TB
Tuberculosis who is at risk of disease?
36 years
Chance of initial infection and hence latent disease dictated by local prevalence of open TB:
Black
African South Asian
South Asia
18% 35%
Caucasian
Black African
Afro-Caribbean
Chinese
Caucasian
26%
Tuberculosis who is at risk of disease?
HIV co-infection:
Smoking: responsible for
8% cases of TB and increasing
(pre-onset of AIDS) estimated 50% of cases
Tuberculosis who is at risk of disease?
• Cough • Malaise
Mediastinal nodes
• Visible on x-ray
Pleural
• 3 months of:
• Cough
• Malaise
• Weight loss
• Night sweats
• 2 months of:
• Back pain
• systemic symptomss
• Recent emigration
• systemic symptomss
systemic symptomss
(weight loss, fatigue, fever, sweats)
+
Risk group
(ethnic: born in Africa or Asia)
(white: homeless, drug abuse, alcoholism, prison)
(all ethnicity: HIV positive)
+/-
Localizing symptom
(cough, pain, palpable mass)
+/-
History of exposure
(recent close contact)
(known disease or close contact as a child)
Diagnosis of tuberculosis
• Extrapulmonary tuberculosis
• Identifying tuberculosis
Histology
Contact tracing
4. Drug resistance:
100 Cases
82 cases
3.3 cases Rx continues 8 cases
Rx stopped
6.6 died, 50% related to TB Lost to F/U
Relapse rare
Outcome of TB
Non-resistant M. tuberculosis is readily curable
Extensive lung disease leaves complications
• Airways obstruction
• Hemoptysis
• Bronchiectasis:
• Recurrent infections
Outcome of TB
Examples of chronic damage
• Shrunken lungs
• Pleural thickening
• Airways disease
• Bronchiectasis
2. Pleural calcification
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Summary of main learning points