¿Qué es la Tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Once the bacterium has entered the body, it has a predilection for attacking the lungs, but can also affect the kidneys and brain.
The bacteria can be transmitted from one person to another by airborne transmission. A person with tuberculosis can be contagious when he/she kisses another person, shares eating utensils, sneezes or coughs, that is, whenever there is contact with saliva from a person with tuberculosis.
The symptoms that usually occur once infected are fatigue, weight loss, fever, chest pain, bloody sputum and shortness of breath.
You only have to make an appointment in any of the means mentioned at the bottom of this page, the sample is through CSF or sputum.
Technique: PCR (polymerase chain reaction).
Type: qualitative (detection).
Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Digital and in-app reporting