ATT full form in medical term is Anti-tuberculosis Treatment or Therapy. Tuberculosis can be treated with a long course of treatment and therapy, but if left untreated, this can be a life-threatening disease. Sometimes people infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis don’t show any symptoms at all. On the other hand, some people only show mild symptoms like coughing. People with the slightest symptoms should be treated as soon as possible because this disease spreads when a person coughs and sneezes.
Most of the time, the Mycobacterium tuberculosis affects the lungs of a host, but it can also infect other vital organs as well. And to treat this bacterial disease, modern-day doctors use a group of drugs in the treatment. Not only that, doctors use these drugs in 3 different lines, so in case the bacterial infection becomes resistant to the treatment, doctors can switch to another line of drugs. This way doctors can ensure to kill or prevent the growth of the bacteria inside lungs or other organs. Talking about the diagnosis procedure, doctors use tuberculin skin test, chest X-ray, and micro bacterial cultures to determine the seriousness of the case.