current health concerns: tuberculosis saharwash jamali hamna jaffar
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Current Health Concerns: Tuberculosis
Saharwash Jamali
Hamna Jaffar
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Estimated TB incidence rate, 2005
No estimate
0–24
50–99
100–299
300 or more
25–49
Estimated new TB cases (all forms) per 100 000 population
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Some facts…
• Affects 2billion people
• 1.6million deaths in 2005 (WHO)
• Is prevalent with sufferers of HIV; causes most of their deaths.
• Is, seemingly, on the decline.
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200
220
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300
1990 1995 2000 2005
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25
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33
1990 1995 2000 2005
120
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140
1990 1995 2000 2005
Estimated global prevalence, mortality and incidence rates, 1990–2005
Prevalence
Mortality Incidence
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Pakistan Facts and Figures.
• TB quite high
• High burden country
• Far out places hard to reach with aid
• Increased awareness, figures still increasing though (WHO)
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About TB
• Caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Mainly pulmonary TB
• Can spread to other locations in body
• Can remain dormant in body; asymptomatic carriers may develop active TB later in life.
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Identification of TB
• Acid fast bacilli, Ziehl-Neelson staining – culture
• Molecular techniques – nucleic acid amplification test, polymerise chain reaction (PCR)
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SEM of M. tuberculosis
Chest X-ray of TB sufferer
Caseous Necrosis (nodule) of lung; Mycobacterium tuberculosis stained with a Kuper and May fluorescence technique
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Treatment
• 1st line drugs (chemotherapeutic)
• Begin with 2 drugs to stop TB resistance developing with just one.
• Long term 12-18months, short course 6 months
• Directly observed therapy
• Complications resistance MDR-TB, XDR-TB
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Vaccinations
• Produced from Bacille-Calmette-Guerin (BCG)
• attenuated strain of M.Bovis
• 80% protectiveness conferred, provides macrophages with killing ability
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WHO Aims and Targets
• 2006 Stop TB Strategy plan to eradicate TB by 2050
• DOTS enhancement and expansion
• Address the growing concern of MDR-TB and XDR-TB
• Awareness
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Resources
• Lippincotts, Microbiology 2nd Edition
• http://www.who.int/tb/en/ (WHO website)
• www.wikipedia.org (Wikipedia, medical students bible)
• Google Images