SOLUTIONS TO EXERCISES, LESSON 6
1.
The bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
(para 6-1)
2.
You are correct if you listed any three of the following:
Education.
Diet.
Preventive measures.
Early diagnosis. (para 6-1)
3.
You are correct if you listed any four of the following:
Fatigue.
Night sweats.
Irregular menses.
Anorexia.
Cough.
Pleuritic chest pain.
Weight loss.
Blood-stained sputum.
Low grade fever. (paras 6-3a-i)
4.
Chest x-ray. (para 6-4a)
5.
Inhaling an airborne droplet which has the tuberculosis bacteria.
Drinking raw milk from cattle infected with the bovine strain of tuberculosis.
(para 6-2)
6.
Tine; Mantoux.
(paras 6-4b(1), (2))
7.
The skin is hypersensitive to a specific bacterial protein antigen.
(para 6-4b)
8.
You are correct if you listed any three of the following:
Peripheral neuropathy.
Central nervous system irritability.
Urine retention.
Depletion of vitamin B6. (para 6-6a(2))
Rifampin (RifadinR).
9.
(para 6-6b)
10.
Streptomycin.
(para 6-6c(2)
11.
Optic neuritis.
(para 6-6d(2)(b)
12.
Tubercle bacille.
(para 6-2c)
13.
Patient has a fever.
Patient has blood-stained sputum.
Patient has severe cough. (para 6-5)
14.
Four to six weeks.
(para 6-2b)
End of Lesson 6
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