Description/Cause of TB

 

There is four different strains of Tuberculosis. Primary TB Pneumonia, Renal TB, TB Meningitis, TB Peritonitis. A infectious agent causes TB it is caused by a bacterium. People catch it by breathing in air exhaled by someone with an active case of TB. It's transmitted through the air and from person to person. It's found in the lungs because that's where it starts and works its ways to other parts of the body TB is infectious disease on humans and animals caused by the Tubercle Bacillus. And characterized by small rounded swelling  on the lungs and other tissues of the body, often developing long after the initial infection. Tuberculosis is also know as white plague, consumption, phthisis, and Pott's disease.