NUR 211 TB
- What is TB caused by?
Answer Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- What kind of infection is TB?
Answer airborne
- What does TB mostly affect?
Answer lungs
- Does a pneumonia infection take longer or shorter to illicite a positive response in an infant?
Answer Longer
- If the immune system is adequate, willTB likely spread and become active?-
Answer No
- If the immune system is inadequate, what occurs when it decreases?
Answer TB can lie dormant and when decreases become active
7. T/F
Answer Primary TB is spreading
Answer
T 1 / 2
- What is the name for reoccurring TB?
Answer reactivation TB
- Where does TB go in extrapulmonary TB?
Answer Enter bronchioles and spread
- Where does miliary tb spread?
Answer blood
- Do patient's with latent tb present with s/s?
Answer NO
12. T/F
Answer A patient with latent TB will have a positive skin test
Answer T
- Can latent TB spread?
Answer No
- Can the immune system stop the bacteria from growing in primary Tb?
Answer no
- What populations are high risk for tb?
- / 2
Answer immigrants, immunocompromised, homeless, substance abuse, poor, prisons, homeless shelters