Acid Fast Organisms

Question 0

What is mycobacterium TB?

Answer 0

Obligate arrive, slender rod

Question 1

What is the genus for acid fast organisms?

Answer 1

Mycobacterium

Question 2

Besides being acid fast why is TB difficult?

Answer 2

Can survive weeks in dried sputum and is very resistant to chemical antimicrobials

Question 3

How is TB aquired?

Answer 3

Inhalation

Question 4

What happens if the body is able to control TB?

Answer 4

Lesion will become a rubric le which will then slowly heal and become calcified

Question 5

What are ghon complexes?

Answer 5

Calcified tubercles

Question 6

What happens if the bodies defenses fall during a TB infection?

Answer 6

Tubercle breaks down and releases virulent bacilli into the airways and cardiovascular system

Question 7

What is it called when the bodies defenses are over whelmed?

Answer 7

Miliary TB or consumption

Question 8

What are the symptoms of military TB?

Answer 8

Weight loss, coughing, loss of vigor

Question 9

What species besides humans get TB?

Answer 9

Birds and cattle