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Khan Academy: Primary and Secondary Tb
Key features of primary TB and how it differs from secondary TB.
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Khan Academy: Pathogenesis
An explanation of how tuberculosis causes damage to lungs and other organs in the body. Latent and secondary tuberculosis is also examined. Of note is once infected with tuberculosis it's with you forever and may cause subsequent issues.
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Khan Academy: Mantoux Test (Aka. Ppd or Tst)
How the Mantoux test is administered and how it works when determining if a person has tuberculous.
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Khan Academy: Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Part Ii
The second of a two-part lesson about how tuberculosis can spread beyond the lungs effecting the bones, central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, and heart.
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Khan Academy: Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Part I
A two part lesson about how tuberculosis can spread beyond the lungs extending to the lymph nodes and the genital urinary tract.
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Khan Academy: What Is Tuberculosis?
An overview of tuberculosis (TB) or consumption which is an infectious disease caused by bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Examined are the affects of tuberculosis on the lungs, latent tuberculosis vs. active tuberculosis, symptoms,...
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Khan Academy: Unit: Infectious Diseases
Introduction to a unit of lessons on the following infectious diseases: Tuberculosis, Pertussis, Influenza, Polio, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV and AIDS, Malaria.
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Khan Academy: Tb Epidemiology
A description of how many lives TB affects throughout the world.
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Khan Academy: What Is Tb?
An explanation of how tuberculosis spreads, its affects on the lungs, latent TB infection vs active TB infection, and constitutional symptoms of TB.
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Khan Academy: Testing for the Flu
An explanation of when testing for influenza makes sense, and the most common test that is used.
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Khan Academy: Naming the Flu: H Something, N Something
An explanation of what the names H1N1 and H3N2 mean and why they are helpful in keeping track of different flu viruses.
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Khan Academy: The Three Types of Flu
An explanation of the three types of influenza viruses (Type A, Type B, and Type C) and what makes them different from one another.
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Khan Academy: When Flu Viruses Attack!
Learn how influenza viruses get into and out of cells using Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase proteins on their surfaces.
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Khan Academy: Catching and Spreading the Flu
Find out how the flu spreads from person to person, and who is at the greatest risk of getting complications of the flu.
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Khan Academy: What Is the Flu?
Learn the difference between the cold and the flu, and how viruses can complicate diagnosis.
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Khan Academy: Pertussis Vaccine
A discussion of the available pertussis vaccines and how each varies in their components that comprise the vaccine even though all of the vaccines have the same goal of generating antibodies against pertussis.
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Khan Academy: What Is Pertussis?
An explanation of whooping cough or pertussis is a highly contagious disease caused by a bacteria called Bordetella that infects the respiratory tract.
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Khan Academy: Pertussis Complications
An explanation of the complications of pertussis and how the contagious disease effects the organs of the body and high risk people.
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Khan Academy: Pertussis Diagnosis and Treatment
Although pertussis can best be diagnosed within the first two weeks of symptoms by a swap sent to a laboratory, other swab tests can be administered later in the illness. Treatment within the first two weeks of initial symptoms is with...
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Khan Academy: Pathophysiology of Pertussis
An examination of how pertussis infects the body and causes symptoms associated with the disease.
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Khan Academy: Two Flu Vaccines (Tiv and Laiv)
Understand the differences between TIV (dead virus) and LAIV (alive, but weakened virus) and the population that should get which one.
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Khan Academy: Flu Shift and Drift
Discover how Type B Influenza virus has genetic drift, whereas Type A Influenza virus has genetic drift and shift.
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Khan Academy: Flu Vaccine Efficacy
An explanation of how useful the flu vaccine actually is at preventing the flu.
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Khan Academy: Genetic Shift in Flu
An explanation of how genetic material in Type A flu virus can get shuffled around to create brand new types of viruses.