Tuberculosis 4/30/2013 Bilbo-Coleman‚ Stephanie C. (Student) Researcher: Stephanie Bilbo-Coleman Age: 18 Major: Art Career Goals: Professional Artist Reason For topic: I never knew anyone personally of this condition but always heard about it. It made me curious of what this condition was actually was and what it does. I am interested into finding out about more of this condition and its history. Table of Contents Definition and History of Tuberculosis…..pg. 3
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Tuberculosis [pic] Salena Nowak Physiology 22 Dr. Jennifer Gray April 15‚ 2008 Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is an acute infectious disease. It is found primarily in the lungs‚ but is also seen in any tissue of the body. This disease has infected more than one third of the world’s population. Most cases are seen in African and European countries. Tuberculosis has killed more people than any other disease in history. Robert Koch was the person who
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Tuberculosis is a disease. The classic symptoms of active TB infection are a chronic cough with blood-tinged sputum‚ fever‚ night sweats‚ and weight loss (the latter giving rise to the formerly prevalent term "consumption"). Infection of other organs causes a wide range of symptoms. Diagnosis of active TB relies on radiology (commonly chest X-rays)‚ as well as microscopic examination and microbiological culture of body fluids. Diagnosis of latent TB relies on the tuberculin skin test (TST) and/or
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respectively. Definition Pulmonary tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In many cases‚ M tuberculosis becomes dormant before it progresses to active TB. It most commonly involves the lungs and is communicable in this form‚ but may affect almost any organ system including the lymph nodes‚ CNS‚ liver‚ bones‚ genitourinary tract‚ and gastrointestinal tract. Etiology The development of TB requires infection by M tuberculosis and inadequate containment by the immune
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The Evolution of Tuberculosis Before the 20th century‚ there was little hope of survival for patients diagnosed with tuberculosis. The disease was considered impossible to fight and the only course of remedy was staying healthy by managing a healthy diet and getting plenty of rest (Goldberg et al.‚ 2012). In 1921‚ advancements in scientific research led to the development of the first vaccine‚ known as Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) (Lienhardt et al.‚ 2012). The discovery
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ANG KONSEPTONG PAPEL Awareness of the Parents about the K to 12 Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge‚ skills‚ and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching‚ training‚ or research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of others‚ but may also be autodidactic.[1] Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks‚ feels‚ or acts may be considered educational. 12-Year Basic Education
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spread from the lungs (“Tuberculosis”). A tuberculosis infection outside of the lungs is called extrapulmonary tuberculosis. In these instances‚ the kidney and bones are more commonly prone to infection. In the kidney‚ tuberculosis proposes little to no symptoms‚ but may destroy part of the kidney‚ which allows the infection to further spread to the bladder. Furthermore‚ if the body cannot conjure a strong enough cell-mediated immune response‚ a case of miliary tuberculosis may form‚ in which “a
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Tuberculosis _ Epidemiology and Nursing Research. Concepts in Community & Public Health NRS427V November14‚ 2013 Tuberculosis _Epidemiology and Nursing Research. Communicable diseases occurs in every country regardless of urban‚ rural‚ or with socio economical diversities. In order to help in prevention and control of communicable diseases‚ locally‚ nationally and globally‚ nurses who are working with the public health system ‚ must have basic
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CASE STUDY: NIKE INC. Background Objectives * To help us know the shortcomings of Nike officers about their failed marketing strategies and learn from their mistakes * To emphasize the wrong move done by the senior managers. * To carefully plan the courses of action the next time they make strategic planning Areas of Consideration There are facts stated in the case which need to be considered in order to address the problem of the company: * From 1997 to 1999‚ Nike didn’t
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Monique Frances B. Rapacon BS Accountancy IIA How the stock market operates Stock market is a place where you can buy and sell shares in a company. When a company makes shares available for the public to buy they are called stocks and this is what you are trading. In most cases what you get when you buy a stock is a very small piece of the company. You are an owner of that company and as it grows the company should become more valuable which means that your stocks should become more valuable
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