which organ is not affected by tuberculosis?
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Hi there !\nIt is a good question !\nTuberculous Bacteria can affect any organ or tissue in the body...! \nWhen I said, "orgain or tissue", I mean it can invade / affect any place where blood supply is available ! It has been found in Brain, skin, Lungs, Heart, Lymphatics, LLiver, Spleen, joints Kidneys, Bones and intestines !\nNails and Hair are NOT considered as "tissues "....or "organs"\nHope this answers your querry ??\n\nBest wishes !
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I've never heard of this disease where your organs eat themselves.  There are many diseases where internal organs malfunction for various reasons.  Inability to gain weight, and dying are typical after your organs fail.
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* TB (short for tuberculosis and also for Tubercle Bacillus)\n    * Consumption (TB seemed to consume people from within with its symptoms of bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting)\n    * Wasting disease\n    * White plague (TB sufferers appear markedly pale)\n    * Phthisis (Greek for consumption) and phthisis pulmonalis\n    * Scrofula (swollen neck glands)\n    * King's evil (so called because it was believed that a king's touch would heal scrofula)\n    * Pott's disease of the spine\n    * Miliary TB (x-ray lesions look like millet seeds)\n    * Tabes mesenterica (TB of the abdomen)\n    * Lupus vulgaris (the common wolf - TB of the skin)\n    * Prosector's wart, also a kind of TB of the skin, transmitted by contact with contaminated cadavers to anatomists, pathologists, veterinarians, surgeons, butchers, etc.\n    * Koch's Disease named after Robert Koch who discovered the tuberculosis bacilli.\n\n[edit]\n\nThe bacterium\nAcid-fast bacilli (AFB) (shown in red) are tubercle bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis.\nEnlarge\nAcid-fast bacilli (AFB) (shown in red) are tubercle bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis.\n\nThe cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB),
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Skin, lungs, and liver.
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Heart disease, cancer, Arthritis, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Diabetes, Sickle cell anemia, lupus\n\nBasically anything that orginates in your body, not from bacteria and viruses.
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Skin.\n\nIf you're talking about raw, physical size, then it's around everything else.  Largest!\n\nIf you're talking about weight, it accounts for about 15% of the total body mass, more than any other organ.  Largest!\n\nIf you're talking about surace area, it's about two square metres in size.  Largest!\n\nThough I should say that's just an AVERAGE human.  I seem to recall a case of a woman in Texas who had a sixty pound tumor in her gut.  Totally benign, but it just kept getting bigger and bigger.  She thought she was just gaining weight...
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TB started off in the Uk. In the early 60's many people died here because of it due to poor sanitation in all the wet wheather and the big stink.\nThis is not a disease only in less fortunate countries.
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When tuberculosis manages to get into the pancreas, the patient will show several symptoms, including abdominal epigastric pains, weight loss, and low-grade fevers.  Because of this symptomology and the presence of a pancreatic mass, pancreatic tuberculosis is often misdiagnosed as pancreatic cancer.  To correctly diagnose the TB infection, a PPD skin-test can help but is not definitive (apparently the TB PPD test has a 10-25% false-negative rate).  Unfortunately, CT scans and radiologic imaging offer little help.  The most effective methods for confirming the presence of pancreatic tuberculosis are cytologic diagnoses.  This involves removal of a portion of the pancreatic mass (generally by fine needle aspiration) and analyzing it for evidence of bacterial infection and evidence of the tuberculosis bacterium itself.
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No TB is tuberculosis which is totally different from HIV.\nTuberculosis (commonly shortened to TB) is an infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (Miliary tuberculosis), genitourinary system, bones and joints. Tuberculosis is one of the most deadly and common major infectious diseases today.\n\nHuman immunodeficiency virus, commonly known by the initialism HIV, is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid or breast milk. This transmission can come in the form of: penetrative (anal or vaginal) sex; oral sex; blood transfusion; contaminated needles; exchange between mother and infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding; or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.
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a.The volume of thoracic cage increases,the lung pressure increases when we breath in.\nb.Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreads when we breath in the air that contains the bacterium as a droplet.\nc.Diagnosis of TB.\nd.Avoiding contact with affected people,vaccination,etc...\ne.Ovary releases the ovum into the oviduct,that collects them & reaches the ampulla for fertilisation.\nf.It dissolves in the haemoglobin & passes thro' the tissues.\ng.The ovarian membranes protects the foetus-Amnion,Chorion & Allantois.\nh.Spread of insect borne diseases thro' insects like mosquitoes & flies.\nk.Insulin,the hormone secreated by beta cells of Islets of Langerhans(present in the pancreas) reduces the increase in Blood glucose level.
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There is, it is illegal, and immoral, Organs safe for transplant have to go through rigorous testing and tissue typing, stolen organs taken from corpses are not tested, there were several cases of stolen organs transplanted into patients in New England recently, fortunately it seems there were no adverse effects.
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TB is spread through the air from one person to another. The bacteria are put into the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs or sneezes. People nearby may breathe in these bacteria and become infected.\n\nHowever, not everyone infected with TB bacteria becomes sick. People who are not sick have what is called latent TB infection. People who have latent TB infection do not feel sick, do not have any symptoms, and cannot spread TB to others. But, some people with latent TB infection go on to get TB disease.\n\nPeople with active TB disease can be treated and cured if they seek medical help. Even better, people with latent TB infection can take medicine so that they will not develop active TB disease.
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Consumption, the great killer \n  \nNATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE \nWorldwide tuberculosis deaths total 1 billion in two centuries. \nTuberculosis is an ancient enemy. Human bones from the Near East dating back five millennia show the telltale pitting of TB. Mummies from Egypt ca. 2400 BCE show tubercular decay in their spines.\n\nThe ancient Greeks described it, too. Around 460 BCE, Hippocrates identified phthisis, or consumption, as the most widespread disease of his age. It was almost always fatal. Because of that, he advised his followers and students against treating late-stage consumption to avoid damage to their reputations.\n\nIt was called the “king’s evil” in medieval Europe because newly crowned kings (and queens, in England) were alleged to cure scrofula, glandular swellings in the neck associated with TB, with their touch.\n\nMoving toward the present, Franciscus dele Bo Sylvius described the progress of the disease in his Opera Medica of 1679. Two decades later, a public-health edict from the Republic of Lucca in Italy recognized the infectious nature of the disease: “Henceforth, human health should no longer be endangered by objects remaining after the death of a consumptive. The names of the deceased should be reported to the authorities, and measures taken for disinfection.”\n\nBenjamin Martin, an English physician and author of A New Theory of Consumption (1720), hypothesized that TB resulted from the actions of “wonderfully minute living creatures.” Once those creatures established themselves in the body, Martin thought, they would generate the characteristic symptoms of consumption. He further theorized that close contact with a consumptive, including frequent conversation so close as to “draw in part of the breath he emits from the Lungs,” was enough to transmit the disease.\n\nIn 1865, a French military doctor, Jean-Antoine Villemin, demonstrated that the disease could be passed from humans to cattle, and from cattle to rabbits. This was a remarkable breakthrough, because despite Martin’s wondrously small organisms, medical theory still held that each case of consumption arose spontaneously in predisposed people.\n\nA few years later, in 1882, Robert Koch demonstrated conclusively that a bacterial infection caused TB. Later investigations proved that air and secretions expelled from consumptive lungs contained live bacteria.\n\nWhether it is known as lupus vulgaris (TB of the skin), Pott’s disease (TB of the bones), or consumption (the “classic” case of lung disease), TB is one of history’s great killers. It is estimated to be responsible for 20% of the deaths in 17th-century London and 30% of those in 19th-century Paris (as recently depicted in the popular film Moulin Rouge). Although not as aggressive as plague, TB has killed more people in history than the black death, leprosy, or HIV. An estimated 1 billion people around the world have been felled by TB in the past two centuries, and the fatalities continue.\n\n“Romantic” and deadly\nAlthough TB is considered a single disease, it has been caused by at least two microorganisms. Long before TB began killing humans, it afflicted cattle. After cattle became one of humanity’s client species sometime between 8000 and 4000 BCE, however, there is evidence that Mycobacterium bovis infected humanity through the ingestion of milk. This coincides with the earliest discoveries of telltale lesions in human spines dating from 5000 BCE.\n\nHowever, after 1000 BCE the strain of TB seems to have changed. After that time, pulmonary TB caused by M. tuberculosis became widespread. M. tuberculosis is most likely an evolved form of M. bovis that developed among milk-drinking Indo-Europeans, who then spread pulmonary TB on their migrations. By the first millennium BCE, pulmonary TB was endemic throughout the world. The earliest recorded symptoms of pulmonary TB—cough, expectoration, hemoptysis, and wasting—are found in the library of Assu
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It is normal flora and is not very virulent at all in normal people, however in aids patinets it is a very common infection and can be their cause of death, through symptoms similar to mycobacterium tuberculosis.  Good question.
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You mean tuberculosis lymphadenitis, an inflammation of the lymph glands caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.  It is a TB that is outside the lungs.  TB is primarily a respiratory disease and is spread through droplet infection (sneezing, coughing).  If you belive you have been exposed to an active case, you will need to see your doctor for a Mantoux test (sometimes called a PPD).  It's a skin test using a purified protein derivative (PPD) with the results read 48-72 hours later. If you are the one with TBL, and I certainly hope you're not, you should be on a medication "cocktail" and in isolation (hopefully in a negative pressure room in a hospital).
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Nope.. TB is curable.\n\nOnce cured, you will not fail the medical exam.
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Yes, it's an uncommon infection which affects people who have depressed immune systems.  It is in the same family as TB but not as catchy to normal people.  There are lots of ways to treat it.  It is spelled with a "y", mycobacterium.  Good luck.