Overview Of The Incidence Tuberculosis in India

TUBERCULOSIS IN
INDIA

Objectives:
To give an overview of the incidence of
tuberculosis in India
To describe the needs of the Indians using
epidemiological, quantitative or qualitative data
on tuberculosis
To discuss about one intervention that could
reduce the burden of tuberculosis
To present actions needed to implement the
intervention described previously

Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne disease caused by the
spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria that
spreads from one individual to other through air
Tuberculosis mainly attacks the lung, however it can
damage other body parts such as kidney and the brain
too
Some of the basic clinical manifestations of TB is
sickness, night sweating and weight loss.
Due to progression of the disease, other symptoms
seen in patient includes frequent cough, spitting of
blood and chest pain.
Mantoux skin test is done to diagnose TB (CDC, 2014).

Risk factors
Low body weight
Head or neck cancer
HIV infection
People who are more vulnerable to risk of TB include
individuals with weak immune system such as
malnutrition, HIV and people using tobacco.
For people with HIV, risk of TB increases by 20 times.
All people irrespective of age has the possibility to
be infected by
Risk of transmission is high in overcrowded areas
(Silva et al., 2018)