The pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has evolved to cause infection in many, but active disease in few. The World Health Organization estimates that one third of the planet's population ...
In order to assess the clinical value of microscopy for acid-fast bacilli (AFB), the results of 3,207 clinical specimens submitted for mycobacterial smear and culture were analyzed. Mycobacteria grew ...
IT HAS been shown that para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) has a definite bacteriostatic effect on human strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro 1–4 and in vivo. 3–9 It is also known that its ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 32 (August 10, 2021), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) Acidic pH arrests the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in ...
Robert Heinrich Herman Koch, a German physician and microbiologist, received Nobel Prize in 1905 for identifying the specific causative agent of tuberculosis (TB). During his time it was believed that ...
Tuberculosis remains one of the major unresolved global health problems, and the situation is worsening in many parts of the world, primarily because of the association between tuberculosis and the ...
A persistent cough lasting more than two weeks, coughing up blood or discoloured sputum, and unexplained weight loss can all be signs of tuberculosis (TB). Sometimes, a person may not even know ...
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