Which bacterial disease has symptoms that may not show up for years? strep throat tuberculosis influenza meningitis

The right answer is tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is a clinical syndrome linked to infection with the bacillus of tuberculosis, during which the bacillus can be reduced to a quiescent state by the immune reaction for several years.

This latency or quiescence is defined by:

* the absence of clinical illness

* no abnormality on the chest X-ray

the positivity of immunological tests with respect to M. tuberculosis: IDR and / or IGRA.

b is the correct answer