The diagnostic criteria for tuberculosis include diagnostic imaging, medical history and symptoms, and testing for tubercle bacilli. 1. Imaging examination: Chest CT or X-ray examination can be done on the chest; these examinations can determine the location of tuberculosis and whether it is active or not. 2. History and symptoms: Patients usually have a history of exposure to tuberculosis, and the symptoms of tuberculosis include coughing up sputum, hemoptysis, dyspnea, low-grade fever, night sweats, fatigue, loss of appetite and other clinical symptoms. 3. Mycobacterium tuberculosis examination: sputum smear examination can be done, if the sputum is found to have mycobacterium tuberculosis, this is the gold standard for diagnosing tuberculosis; imaging aids in diagnosis and common symptoms of tuberculosis can not confirm the diagnosis, sputum smear, sputum culture can be used to confirm the diagnosis of tuberculosis mycobacterium tuberculosis. If the patient has symptoms of tuberculosis, we should do the relevant examination of tuberculosis in time, early diagnosis, early treatment, under the guidance of the physician’s interview to formulate individualized treatment plan, in accordance with the standard treatment, the patient should not self-medication.
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