What is the connection between pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumonia?!
Question:
What is the connection between pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumonia?
Answers:
Pneumonia (Primary tuberculosis) is caused by various types of germs such as streptococcus, staphylococcus, and pneumococcus variety. At times, certain viruses are also responsible for the disease. Other causes of diseases are fungal infection, irritation by worms, inhaling foreign matter, irritant dust or noxious gases and vapours such as ammonia, nitrogen dioxide, or cadmium.
Pulmonary tuberculosis or tuberculosis of the lung is by far the most common type of tuberculosis. It tends to consume the body and the patient loses strength, colour, and weight. Other symptoms are a raise in temperature especially in the evening, a persistent cough and hoarseness, difficulty in breathing, pain in the shoulders, indigestion, chest pain, and blood in the sputum.
The only common difference is both attack the lungs, but both have totally different parameters.