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Latent TB Transmission and Screening Tests

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Hello

Does Latent TB transmit from Husband to Wife through body fluid. for example: if husband has LTB then it can transmit to wife through intercourse if wife gets pregnant , it could transmit to baby too. some Doctors say that Latent TB does not transmit others but some doctors say it can be transmit through body fluid . please let me know about it if anyone have knowledge about it ?

I am waiting for answers

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Hi Zafr,

Thanks for posting your question. You will be pleased to hear that latent TB cannot be passed on at all, not in any way.

TB is only infectious if it becomes active in someone's throat or lungs. They can then pass TB bacteria through the air when they cough, talk or sneeze.

More information is available at: thetruthabouttb.org

Best wishes,

Helen

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Dear Helen C I've just joined your blog & if possible without unduly worrying anyone I hope like you we can educate more people that have the unfortunate experience of contracting or rather breathing in tuberculosis bacteria........

My story is a very long one that cannot possibly be encompassed on this particular small post but it seems I have been given a missed opportunity by many doctors because since I was 50 a lymph node became abnormal in my neck and I see due to more awareness by the research it is now known that follicular lymphoma can be mistaken for TB lymphadenopathy. No observance took place by any doctor regarding my previous tuberculosis disease at that time. No doctor took notice of waterworks problems I had 10 years before that and never associated the waterworks problems I had with the confirmation 3 years before that that I had indeed got confirmation that I had a previous tubercular infection.

When a person reaches 70 years old they are written of in terms of any treatment I am told but this advice comes from nurses who do not have the full technical medical knowledge

to give out that information. This is another anomaly or rather inexperience yet again. We are all different in terms of resistance and that also encompasses the ability to withstand

certain antibiotics we take to rid us of infections.

For instance Ciprofloxacin can be devastating to certain individuals whereby it destroys certain ligaments & causes them to tear off the bone. In 2001 I that antibiotic I V. & that was not associated with TB but never the less most certainly I would have 'gone' without that antibiotic which was for sepsis. Subsequently I took Cipro for a month in 2017 without any adverse symptoms whatsoever apart from diarrhea the last 3 days of the course which Metronidazole cleared in 3 days. In my case it would be very nice to speak to a doctor or a bacteriologist who could tell me the truth at least because I feel that not much truth at all has evolved over the years in my particular case.......

It's not very comforting to know full well that doctor's mistakes of which there are many and in particular regarding TB that are either buried or burned and that is the end of their and their patients problem!

And then there is the dilemma of my messenteric lymph node adenopathy (enlargement) that was said to be lymphoma..... Again no history looked at and no acid fast test on those lymphs.

That is a very interesting question you have asked and it is probably a complex one. Not only that but if tuberculosis bacteria is affecting the waterworks which involves in a male

the sexual organs the term latent means quiescent but then if the organs are then infected and not quiescent due to the fact that tuberculosis can re emerge at any time during a persons lifetime then I would have thought that the mico bacteria may be able to get into the body fluids and then infect the person they go into.

Take for instance Chickenpox which then re evolves as shingles. Some individuals unfortunately find their shingles returning time after time. The re emergence may be due to the immune system at certain times not being able to encapsulate the virus sufficiently to contain it. It is said that the fluids emitting from any eruptions are infectious. Varying degrees of severity in both seen and felt symptoms are experience by all individuals.

The tuberculosis bacteria is both cunning as is the Chickenpox virus in that it can hide in the body but can emerge later in life although it does not cause symptoms at the time of the infection due to the hosts immunity to the infection.

A special assessment nurse contradicts and I agree with her when I questioned her regarding the subject you are asking about but on a general bacteria theme. I told her that I heard that a certain urologist and a few GP's thought that a male cannot pass on a bacterial infection to his partner...... She and I agree that in ours and others,this reasoning is patent rubbish because as she said = " well how do people get sexually transmitted diseases then?"

It is known that tuberculosis is very much like a virus in that it is minute. It has been in existence for at least 5000 years & because there is no absolute data an open mind on the subject is prudent until proven otherwise. It is appreciated that there is ongoing research

which is trying to evaluate your question........ As you will know data changes with research that finds different statistics today that was not the same decades ago.

It was stated that lymphoma was not hereditar passed on but now the statistics confirm that that there is a 10% chance that it is passed on.

An eminent hematologist stated that ALL tuberculosis is brought in and not endemic =wrong.

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