Maxofacial Patho Part 2 Flashcards
Cause of Tb
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, bacterial, less common than the other two
Canididiasis
Fungal disease, common
number of deaths from tb
2-3 million per year, particularly immunosuppressed; increasing in foreign born (unmonitored)
Infection of Tb
DOES NOT mean active disease; most that get active disease are simply immunosupressed
where tb effects
pulmonary of course, also extrapulmonary (skin-lupus vulgaris and Cervical Lymph nodes-scrofula)
Scrofula
tb in cervical ln
lupus vulgaris
skin tb
% of people with active oral tb and what is
.5-5%; non healing ulcerus
PPD test
skin test for tb, concern when one goes from negative to positive
Ways to diagnose tb
PPD, Sputum Culture, Histopathology
Microscopic features of Tb
formulation of granulomas-Caseating granuloma-wall of from the body
Caseating Granulomas
in pulmonary Tb-multinucleated balls of macrophages
Langhans Giant cells
Tb
Treatment
- Multi-drug therapy
- MDR-TB
- XDR-TB (extremely resistant to everything)
MDR TB
Multi-Drug Resistance
Moniliasis
Candidiasis-Dimorphic fungus
Dimorphic fungus
yeast form-innocuous
Hyphal form-disease causing
Percentage of population with candidiasis
Common, in elderly, under dentures, not always disease causing