A deficiency of one or more of these minerals can leave you prone to cramps. These minerals include magnesium, sodium, potassium and calcium. Intense sweating, diarrhoea and vomiting are the most common ways of developing a sudden, acute deficiency in these minerals.
Germs called bacteria, viruses, and fungi may cause pneumonia. In adults, bacteria are the most common cause of pneumonia. Ways you can get pneumonia include: Bacteria and viruses living in your nose, sinuses, or mouth may spread to your lungs.
1 When the bacteria cause clinically detectable disease, you have TB. 2  People who have inhaled the TB bacteria, but in whom the disease is controlled, are referred to as infected. 3  Their immune system has walled off the organism in an inflammatory focus known as a granuloma. The bacteria further multiply in organs that have high oxygen pressures, such as the upper lobes of the lungs, the kidneys, bone marrow, and. 2  membrane-like coverings of the brain and spinal cord. 3  When the bacteria cause clinically detectable disease, you have TB.