Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease transmissible to say difficult, because most people never exposed to bacteria, vulnerable people who are sick because of Tuberculosis as follow.
ElderlyThe older, a person's immune system tends to decrease so that TB is more commonly effects the elderly.
BabyIn contrast to parents who have weakened her immune system, immune system is not perfect so the baby would equally susceptible to TB infection.
People with HIV or AIDSThe worst effects of infection Imunodeficiency Human Virus (HIV) is a weakening of the immune system, leaving it vulnerable to opportunistic infections or concomitant infection.
People with diabetesSimilarly, HIV infection, diabetes also causes weaker immune system. In these conditions, TB infection easily transmitted.
cancerAlthough cancer does not make the immune system weakens, but chemotherapeutic drugs to cure cancer generally have adverse effects on the immune system. While undergoing chemotherapy, cancer patients susceptible to infections including tuberculosis.
Organ-transplant patientsCurrently undergoing an organ transplant, the patient will be given medicine to weaken the immune system so her body does not reject the new organ. The outcome was the patient vulnerable to infection, one tuberculosis.
Renal failure patientsDisorders of the kidneys can weaken the immune system, are vulnerable to TB.
Patients who undergo treatment of autoimmune diseasesAutoimmune diseases occur when the immune system attacks the body itself, so the way to treat it is to weaken the immune system. The weakening of the immune system by itself makes the patient susceptible TB.
the poor and malnourishedInevitably, poverty is a risk factor for TB infection. This factor makes less nutritional needs are met, so the immune system does not develop optimally.
People who are in an environment of TB patientsThis group includes, between others, families and health workers who treat TB patients, as well as officials at the prison.
Persons traveling to endemic areasTB endemic areas to watch out for by the traveler, between others, as follow:
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- India
- China
- Mexico
- The islands of Southeast Asia and Micronesia
- Several former Soviet republics