Pulmonary tuberculosis

What it means

A lung infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis a slightly curved non-motile, aerobic, non-capsulated and non-spore forming strains of mycobacteria.

Predisposing factors include poverty, social disruption, malnutrition, different causes of immune suppression, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, HIV-TB co-infection and increasing drug resistance.

Rare diseases that can present with this3

The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions, and Orphanet separately records 1 disease where this sign is specifically absent. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.

Part of the broader category

Also called: Pulmonary TB