Ten days after treating a 34-year-old patient with tuberculosis, you are given a tuberculin skin test, which yields a positive result. this most likely indicates that you were exposed to another infected person prior to treating the 34-year-old patient.
Tuberculosis is the infection in lungs and it is an bacterial infection and the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis is Mycobacterium tuberculosis and they are also known as oxygen loving bacteria.
The bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis can attack any part of the body such as kidney, brain, or spine and they attack on other people who came in contact with patient as they are spread from one source to another source.
Therefore, you were exposed to another infected person prior to treating the 34-year-old patient.
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