Theme 34
General pathology
TUBERCULOSIS
Dr Mestiri S
, AIMS
- Specify the epidemiological and physiopathological features of
Tuberculosis.
- List the main clinical forms of Tuberculosis.
- List the types of samples and the means of study in pathology,
allowing the diagnosis of Tuberculosis.
- List the different macroscopic features encountered
during Tuberculosis.
- List the histopathological arguments allowing the diagnosis
of tuberculosis.
- List the main differential diagnoses of Tuberculosis
, I- Introduction
- Bacterial disease, contagious mainly by air.
- Human-to-human transmission.
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis +++.
- Tuberculosis can affect any tissue in the body.
- Pulmonary tuberculosis is the most common, it alone is
contagious.
, II- Epidemiology
-WHO: 9 million new cases of TBC in the world.
- 2 million deaths/year.
-95% of TBC cases in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis represent the source of
contagion.
- Pulmonary +++ or extra-pulmonary location
General pathology
TUBERCULOSIS
Dr Mestiri S
, AIMS
- Specify the epidemiological and physiopathological features of
Tuberculosis.
- List the main clinical forms of Tuberculosis.
- List the types of samples and the means of study in pathology,
allowing the diagnosis of Tuberculosis.
- List the different macroscopic features encountered
during Tuberculosis.
- List the histopathological arguments allowing the diagnosis
of tuberculosis.
- List the main differential diagnoses of Tuberculosis
, I- Introduction
- Bacterial disease, contagious mainly by air.
- Human-to-human transmission.
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis +++.
- Tuberculosis can affect any tissue in the body.
- Pulmonary tuberculosis is the most common, it alone is
contagious.
, II- Epidemiology
-WHO: 9 million new cases of TBC in the world.
- 2 million deaths/year.
-95% of TBC cases in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
- Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis represent the source of
contagion.
- Pulmonary +++ or extra-pulmonary location
