Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is a communicable chronic granulomatous disease.

• True

• False

Primary tuberculosis develops in a previously unexposed & unsensitized patient.

• True

• False

Secondary tuberculosis can appear in these condition:

• Shortly after primary tuberculosis

• Reactivation of dormant primary lesions

• Reinfection

• All of above

Ghon complex is the primary pathological lesion in secondary tuberculosis.

• True

• False

Identification of tubercle bacilli by conventional cultures is the standard diagnostic method.

• True

• False