IT IS increasingly apparent that the usefulness of streptomycin therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis is seriously limited by the frequent and often early appearance of tubercle bacilli that are ...

Tuberculosis is a communicable disease caused by infection with the tubercle bacillus (also known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis or M. tuberculosis), most frequently affecting the lungs.

Once it became widely known that the tubercle bacilli from someone's saliva could survive for an entire day, women abandoned their long dresses, skirts, bodices, and bustles in favor of shorter ...

The biology of the tubercle bacillus is studied to control its multiplication in man. Out of these investigations have come encouraging advances in the treatment of the disease ...

This is the right time to combat tuberculosis.” These words were spoken a century ago by the discoverer of the tubercle bacillus, Robert Koch. “I have a very distinguished group of leaders ...

Let us consider the four most prominent ideas: genetic susceptibility, social misery, infection with the tubercle bacillus and its variants, and poor compliance with treatment. First, we did not ...

A Vollmer patch test for tuberculosis was negative. The sputum was negative for tubercle bacilli by smear on 3 occasions. It was stringy and mucoid, amounting to 15 to 30 cc. per day. On many days ...

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude, they placed ...

The frequency of spontaneous chronic infections in guinea-pigs is stressed and the possible effect these may have on altering the resistance of the infected animal to subsequent experimental ...

Until we have a fundamental understanding of how humans do or do not resist the tubercle bacillus [TB bacteria], it is difficult to engineer a vaccine that capitalises on that knowledge," says Dr ...

[76] A sensitive and specific NAAT, Xpert® MTB/RIF, uses molecular probes and real-time PCR to rapidly detect the tubercle bacillus and identify mutations conferring rifampicin resistance.