Tuberculosis

[Anna]

Hello. Excuse for such question, but for me it is very important. Tell or say pliz, whether greater or big probability to catch a tuberculosis if I passed by the sick person some times? But contact to it or him did not enter

[Dr]

Very low. Tbts is not virus disease, and for zaarzhenija good contact is necessary.

[Aritmolog]

The tuberculotherapist is engaged in a tuberculosis.

For infection with a tuberculosis are necessary:
1. Contact. The more longly and more closely, the there are more than chances. Nevertheless at you contact was.
2. A susceptibility of your organism.

Address to the phthisiatrician, the preventive course tuberkulostatikov (Ftivazidum) probably is required.