[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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

agent for influenza, referred to as Pfeiffer’s bacillus. Vaccines were made from culture of the bacillus and may have been effective at reducing some secondary 1948), p. 514 I can think of a few ...

Tibial tubercle transfer, also called bony realignment or osteotomy, is a surgical treatment option for instability, arthritis or cartilage defects affecting the patellofemoral joint (kneecap and ...

Department of Rheumatology, Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, London, United Kingdom. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether 'spiking' or angulation of the tibial tubercle is associated with other ...