NUR 720- Tuberculosis Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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Course
NUR 720
Institution
NUR 720
What bacteria causes tuberculosis?
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
How is tuberculosis transmitted?
airborne (droplet nuclei remain in air for several hours)
What is latent tuberculosis?
Immune response forms granulomas around bacilli to prevent active TB. Not
infectious
What is active tuberc...
✓ 3x normal with symptoms
✓ 5x normal without symptoms
You examine a 28 year old woman who has emigrated from a country where TB
is endemic. She has documentation of receiving bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)
vaccine as a child. With this information, you consider that:
✓ a potential for a false positive
A 33-year-old woman works in a small office with a man recently diagnosed with
active pulmonary TB. Which of the following would be the best plan of care for
this woman?
✓ She should receive TB chemoprophylaxis if her TST is 5 mm or more in induration.
Compared with TST, potential advantages of the quantiferon TB gold test
(QTF-G) include all of the following except:
A. the ability to have the entire testing process complete with one clinical visit
B. the results available in 24 hours
C. the interpretation of the test is not subject to reader bias
D. it is able to predict who is at greatest risk for active disease development
✓ D. It is able to predict who is at greatest risk for disease development
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