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Tuberculosis
Infectious Diseases · Infectious & Parasitic
Severe
Severity
Common in India — India accounts for roughly a quarter of the world's TB cases
Prevalence
Yes
Contagious
Infectious Diseases
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria
- 2spread through airborne droplets from an infected person with active pulmonary disease. Risk factors include close contact with an infected individual
- 3a weakened immune system such as from HIV
- 4malnutrition
- 5diabetes
- 6overcrowded living conditions
- 7and substance abuse.
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