Respiratory Diseases - 3 Answers
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It is still contagious.
2 :
Transmission can only occur from people with active TB disease (not latent TB infection). Basically if the person is recovering either spontaneously or through medical treatment they are not contagious.
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open pulmonary tuberculosis, in which the patient is coughing out bacteria is infectious. closed or treated pulmonary TB is not infectious. this can be checked by a sputum examination by the pathologist. you need to give the morning sputum sample, not saliva, for three consecutive days
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