The Ministry of Health and Population confirmed that the proportion Tuberculosis infection In Egypt, it was 15 cases per 100,000 people in 2015, and the coverage rate of cases was 54%, while the rate reached 12 cases per 100,000 cases in 2020, and health coverage reached 69 cases.-
It is noteworthy that tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease that affects the lungs most of the time besides that it affects all parts of the body, and there is pulmonary tuberculosis where its symptoms appear through a cough that lasts for more than two weeks with a high temperature, and sweat during the night, with loss of appetite and weight, and is Detection of tuberculosis by sputum analysis to detect the microbe, use of tuberculosis cultures, or detection through “gene expert” devices, which are modern devices that can detect the microbe within two hours, and detect the resistance of the microbe.
Rifampin is considered the most important drug for treating tuberculosis, and there are other detection methods such as x-rays and tissue analysis for extra-pulmonary tuberculosis cases.
It is noteworthy that AIDS patients are more likely to have TB due to the reduced immunity of the body to disease resistance, as the patient needs in this case to treat AIDS with treating tuberculosis together, and the World Program for Tuberculosis Control of the World Health Organization has recommended using combination medicines throughout the treatment period, and following up Treatment with the patient on an ongoing basis.
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