The symptoms of mycobacterial lung disease are fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, coughing up blood, excess mucus production, night sweats, fever, loss of appetite, unintentional weight loss and possible chest pain and wheezing.
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is most likely to be found in South Africa, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Indonesia, India, China and Bangladesh.
Although Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is found all over the world but it's more common in those countries.
People who are the most common victims of mycobacterium tuberculosis are.
Foreign-born persons, including children, who have immigrated within the last 5 years from areas that have a high TB incidence.
Close contacts of people that are exposed to the contagious cases of TB.
The factors that determine the risk of infection of the body with mycobacteria are head and neck cancer, organ transplants, low body weight, severe kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, silicosis, substance abuse and HIV infections.
Mycobacterium or mycobacteria are slender, non spore-forming, rod-shaped, aerobic, slow-growing, and free-living in soil and water.
These mycobacteria have a generation time of about 20 h, thus isolation and identification may take up to 6 weeks (although a few species may grow in only 5–7 days).
You can destroy Mycobacterium by using disinfectants such as quaternary ammonium or phenolic soultions.
Vinegar and vitamin C can also kill and destroy Mycobacterium.
You can prevent Mycobacterium by washing your hands after coughing and sneezing, covering your mouth with a tissue when you sneeze or cough and seal the tissue in a plastic bag.
Avoid close contact with people who have active TB disease.
Wash your hands often and cover your mouth when coughing or sneezing.
Eat a nutritious diet and exercise regularly to keep your immune system strong.
Mycobacterium is detected through a positive culture test and also through acid fast bacilli, smear tests and nucleic acid amplification tests which show the presence of MTB.
The antibiotics that work against and treat Mycobacterium are clarithromycin, azithromycin, rifampin, rifabutin, ethambutol, streptomycin, and amikacin which usually used in combination to prevent the mycobacteria from becoming resistant to the antibiotics.
Mycobacterium infects the lungs, skin, soft tissue, cartilage, tendons and also sometimes the layers of fat and muscle underneath your skin.
Tuberculosis is caused by a different strain from the same family of bacteria.
Mycobacterium is treatable through use of antibiotics which are taken for around 1 to 2 years.
Different antibiotics will be taken in combination to keep the mycobacterium from resisting a certain antibiotic.
The two diseases that are caused by Mycobacterium are Leprosy and Tuberculosis.
Mycobacterium Leprae causes Leprosy and Mycobacterium Tuberculosis causes Tuberculosis.
In order to survive the Mycobacterium needs to resist antimicrobial mechanisms and subvert macrophage signaling pathways.
Mycobacteria lives in soil, bogs, ground water, sea water and surface water.
Mycobacteria can also live in sewage sludge and tap water.
Curing Mycobacterium can take as long as 6 months to 12 months and sometimes up to 2 years for a full cure of Mycobacterium and full recovery.
Most people need to take antibiotics for mycobacterium infections for 1 year to 2 years to fully get rid of the mycobacterium infection.
The disinfectant that kills Mycobacterium is Chlorine Dioxide, hydrogen peroxide and Lysol.
Mycobacterium grows on the phagocytic vacuoles of the macrophages where it then encounters a moderately acidic and possibly nutrient restricted environment.
Other types of mycobacterial species will encounter and live in acidic conditions such as in aquatic environments and soil.
People who are most at risk for Mycobacterium are people with a history of untreated or inadequately treated TB disease, children younger than 5 years of age and people living with HIV.
Also people with weakened immune systems are more at risk for Mycobacterium.
Vinegar and acetic acid is what can naturally kill Mycobacterium.
Even the highly drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis can be naturally killed using vinegar and acetic acid.
The symptoms of Mycobacterium are cough which produces sputum or even blood, fatigue, fever, weight loss and night sweats.
Skin symptoms of Mycobacterium are open sores, red rashes, boils or visible ulcerations and if the soft tissue is infected it can have lesions or ulcerations which ooze pus.
Mycobacterium is so hard to treat as it can exhibit genetic resistance to medications and antibiotic which is why mycobacterium is treated with several antibiotics.
Mycobacterium is life threatening if let untreated as mycobacteria can cause life threatening infections in people that have severely compromised immune systems.
Mycobacterium is a bacteria which is a Gram positive, catalase positive, non motile, non spore rod shaped bacteria that is 0.2–0.6 μm wide and 1.0–10 μm long.
Mycobacterium is not contagious and cannot be spread from human to human.
Being around someone with mycobacterium infection is okay and you will not catch it from them.
If you don't treat Mycobacterium it can lead to damage to the lungs.
The Mycobacterium infection itself is not contagious and cannot be spread from human to human although you should see a doctor and take long term antibiotics to get rid of the mycobacterium infection.
The mycobacterium antibiotics are usually taken for as long as 1 to 2 years.
If Mycobacterium goes untreated it can lead to a higher chance of you developing bronchitis and also pneumonia.
A more serious condition that can result from mycobacterium is fibrocavitary diseae which occurs when the infection has created a cavity or holes in your lung tissue.
In these cases the person needs immediate treatment to get the infection under control.
You can get Mycobacterium through a wound that comes into contact with contaminated soil or through injections with substances that are contaminated with the mycobacterium or through invasive medical procedures that employ contaminated material or equipment.
You can also get Mycobacterium infections by drinking contaminated water and the mycobacterium can also enter your skin through a break in the skin such as a puncture wound or by inhaling the mycobacterium.
Nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease or NTM lung disease is a lung infection caused by bacteria found naturally in soil and water.
If you are immunocompromised or living with a chronic lung disease you are at higher risk of infection.
You can get rid of Mycobacterium through use of different antibiotics such as amikacin, streptomycin, ethambutol, rifabutin, rifampin, azithromycin and clarithromycin.
These antibiotics are most often used in combination with each other to prevent the mycobacteria from becoming resistant to just one antibiotic.
The disease that is caused by mycobacteria is tuberculosis and mycobacterium leprae can cause leprosy.
Mycobacterium is a harmful bacteria that can cause illness in people.
The most common illness that is caused by mycobacterium is Tuberculosis.
Other types of the mycobacteria that are called nontuberculous mycobacteria can cause illness in people which are different from tuberculosis.
Mycobacterium is a genus of over 190 species in the phylum Actinomycetota, assigned its own family, Mycobacteriaceae.
This genus includes pathogens known to cause serious diseases in mammals, including tuberculosis and leprosy in humans.
You can develop a nontuberculous mycobacterial infection if you drink contaminated water.
Bacteria can also enter the body through a break in the skin, such as a puncture wound that gets contaminated with water or soil.
Inhaling the bacteria also puts you at risk for infection.