Bacterial load | Route | Disease |
Multibacillary forms | By direct inoculation | Primary inoculation TB (tuberculous chancre) |
By continuity | Scrofuloderma |
Tuberculosis periorificialis |
By hematogenous spreading | Acute miliary tuberculosis |
Gumma (cold abscess) |
Paucibacillary forms | By direct inoculation (re-exposure) | Tuberculosis verrucosa cutis |
Lupus vulgaris (occasionally) |
By hematogenous spreading | Lupus vulgaris |