ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium, Syndemic
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In the case of health deterioration (living circumstances more stressful, chronic stress on the body) = impairment on immune system so that mycobacterium gets reactivated (adult-stage reactivation) Respitory transmission = easy spread and long-term in humans. Tb will destroy bone (goes to area of rbc prod. ); partic. spine and spongy parts of bone - in the spine pott"s spine (bent spine), in vertebrae (close to the lung) bone distingrates/collapses/forms wedge. First migrants to the new world brought tb. *if tb in hard tissue you already have tb thus not latent form (latent = inactivated) *called consumption b/c consumed from the inside out (no outward symptoms) Overcrowded conditions from indust. and birth of cities tb loves overcrowding. *open to poor too; stress levels reduced in these sanatoriums b/c immune syst"s recovered. Then antibiotics created after ww2; drugs created to kill the bacteria rates of tb plummeted so public health considered it tackled/handled.
