Some Causes of TB Disease

Tuberculosis is a disease-causing bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Another name is the tubercle bacillus Koch 1882. This bacterium was first identified by Robert Koch on March 24, 1882. The surface of these bacteria with fat made from mikolat acid. Uniquely, it is highly aerobic bacteria, namely: is in need of high levels of oxygen for metabolism.

When viewed from the taxonomy, the bacteria that cause TB disease include Bacteria kingdom, phylum Actinobacteria, class Actinobacteria, order Actinomycetales, suborder Corynebacterineae, Mycobacteriaceae family and genus Mycobacterium.

The cause of tuberculosis is Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. But the latent abilities of this bacteria in an inactive phase formed in the body makes a lot of factors are interrelated, so that ultimately cause disease as we know it. Factors that cause TB disease of which are as follows.

1. The immune system of patients weakened.
2. Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria that grow into aggressive.
3. Dirty environment so that the possibility of infection and spread of bacteria becomes larger.

In addition to the cause of tuberculosis, there are other things that also play an important role in the development of TB disease, namely: risk factors. There are a variety of environmental risk factors play an important role so that for the general public, as it is also a cause tuberculosis disease.

• Home ventilation. TB patients tend not to have a good home ventilation system. Thus facilitating the growth of bacteria that cause tuberculosis.
• Behavior of patients or people who are not closing the mouth when coughing, when tuberculosis is transmitted through the air and splashing saliva or phlegm during coughing.
• Lighting. Many homes TB patients who have poor lighting, and many were no lighting at all. Like the houses in the slums. Obviously this is very unfortunate, because it is easy to aggravate tuberculosis.
• Temperature and humidity. Temperature and humidity house tuberculosis patients usually do not fulfill the requirements to be called a healthy home. Keep in mind, a healthy house has an average temperature of 30.84 degrees Celsius and an average humidity of 70.38%.

The weakening of the immune system or immune system is also one of the factors that aggravate the risk of TB disease. Some of illness and medication or medications that can weaken the immune system, among others: HIV / AIDS, the elderly, poor nutrition or malnutrition, diabetes or diabetes mellitus, multiple drugs to treat arthritis (rheumatoid arthritis), Crohn's disease, and psoriasis, drugs to prevent rejection (rejection of various organs are transplanted), and end-stage renal disease conditions.

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