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 ...

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 ...

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.

MANY workers have claimed that the common sulphanilamides in high concentrations may modify the course of experimental tuberculosis in animals. Much better results have been obtained, however ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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.