What you can do yourself: infectious diseases at a glance - Tuberculosis - Tuberculosis
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Clinical pictureTuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the tuberculosis bacterium (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). The most common symptoms of tuberculosis are general symptoms (fever, fatigue, listlessness, weight loss, low-grade fever, and night sweats) and/or symptoms caused by the location of the disease process in the lungs or other organs, such as coughing up blood, chest pain, and shortness of breath in the case of pulmonary tuberculosis. Route of infectionInfection with tuberculosis bacteria almost always occurs via the respiratory tract (aerogenically), through contact with a patient with active (contagious) pulmonary tuberculosis. Contagious periodIf open pulmonary tuberculosis is diagnosed, the infectious period is…
