I have a case in my family. the doctor says there is not much time. I have been searching about it but can not find much. pl. Help Is this kind of TB communicable.
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Here's a site that summarizes some information on the disease. I was surprised that I couldn't find any information on webMD.com.
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Bone Tuberculosis is a potentially fatal contagious disease that can affect almost any part of the body but is mainly an infection of the lungs.
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"Bone TB is not contagious...."
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bone tb is when the tb has spread from the lungs(where its normally confined) through the blood to the bony -much like a cancer metastasizes from prostate to bone it is very serious and requires very aggressive antibiotic treatment to be successful and may require surgery usually if someone has bone tb it has spread via the blood stream and they are very contagious at that point
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One of the manifestations of tuberculosis outside of the lungs is called Pott disease (or Pott's disease) where the microorganism that infects the person penetrates to the spine and actually infects the bone. Another name for this type infection of the bone is osteomyelitis, and that's the general term for when you have a bacterial infection of any bone. We don't see Pott's disease too much in the US these days in everyday practice, particularly in patients with healthy immune systems. Here's a good wikipedia article I found about when one has tuberculosis of the vertebral spine and I hope this is a little bit helpful in your search. I wish you and your family all the best in this tough time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pott_disease
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