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infection associated with tuberculin hypersensitivity as shown by a positive tuberculin skin test (TST) with no striking clinical or CXR manifestation
Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI)
(+) TST only
subset of MDR-TB with a strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex that is resistant to ISONIAZID and RIFAMPICIN, any Quinolone and at least 1 of the 3 second line injectable drugs: KANAMYCIN, AMIKACIN, CAPREOMYCIN
Extensively Drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB)
HR + quinolone + 1/3 2nd line injectable (KAC)
initial lung lesion of primary TB
Ghon Focus
resistance to at least ISONIAZID and RIFAMPICIN
Multidrug-resistance (MDR)
resistance to more than 1 antituberculosis drug, other than ISONIAZID and RIFAMPICIN
Poly-resistance
TB of the spine
Pott’s disease
primary focus
lymphangitis
localized pleural effusion
regional lymphadenitis
Primary complex
bacteriologically-diagnosed or clinically diagnosed case o TB involving the lung parenchyma or the tracheobronchial tree
Pulmonary TB
TB of the skin overlying a caseous lymph node that has ruptured to the outside, leaving ulcer or a sinus
Scrofuloderma