Special stains were negative for acid-fast bacilli, fungal forms, Pneumocystis, and other bacteria. |
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The role of macrophage apoptosis in containing the growth of the bacilli is also discussed. |
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All these 22 patients had chronic cough with haemoptysis but were not positive for acid-fast bacilli in three sputum examinations. |
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The morphology of relatively long, beaded AFB, often with bent or folded ends, is demonstrable even when bacilli are present in spindle cells. |
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Lacto bacilli are heralded by the curdling of milk, other microbes simply by a sour smell to the liquid they're in. |
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Results of a Mantoux test and sputum test for acid-fast bacilli were negative. |
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Biopsy of the ulcers showed non-specific inflammatory cells with no evidence of malignancy or acid-fast bacilli. |
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All the patients had bacilli sensitive to streptomycin, isoniazid and rifampicin initially. |
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The elongation phase of growth distinguishes bacilli from cocci, which grow and divide by pure septation. |
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When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. |
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Major and limb-threatening infections may involve aerobic gram positive cocci, gram negative bacilli, anaerobes, and enterococci. |
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Tubercle bacilli can remain dormant for years before producing active disease. |
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Acid-fast bacilli were numerous, both intracellularly in histiocytes and extracellularly in necrotic areas. |
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Our study suggests that the painlessness of the disease may be partly due to intraneural invasion of bacilli. |
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Cultures of right and left lung tissues were obtained for bacteria, acid-fast bacilli, and fungi. |
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Stains and cultures of bronchial washings were negative for Pneumocystis, acid-fast bacilli, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. |
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Biopsy from a peritoneal granuloma showed caseation necrosis and acid-fast bacilli. |
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This leads to inflammation wherever there are leprosy bacilli in the body mainly in the skin and nerves. |
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Having thus defused a key weapon in the immune arsenal, the bacilli flourish for years prior to killing off or debilitating their host. |
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In 1917, d' Herelle had discovered a self-propagating filterable substance capable of dissolving dysentery bacilli, later identified as bacteriophage. |
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The disease is caused by a neurotoxin produced by anaerobic tetanus bacilli growing in contaminated wounds. |
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As early as 1906 he demonstrated that resistance to tuberculosis was related to the presence in the body of living bacilli. |
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Whooping cough is highly contagious, caused br rod shaped bacilli, Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertusis. |
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Triclosan's activity against Gram-positive organisms is greater than against Gram-negative bacilli. |
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The presence of toxins from gram-negative bacilli can cause severe endotoxin reactions, including shock, and deaths have been reported. |
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They are more active against Gram-positive bacteria than against Gram-negative bacilli. |
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Fine words do not take the pollution out of the water we drink, or the deadly bacilli out of infected milk. |
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They occur when large numbers of leprosy bacilli are killed and gradually decompose. |
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It aims to eliminate any residual bacilli and to prevent a possible recrudescence. |
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Several weeks later, they inoculated both sets of animals with fresh, virulent anthrax bacilli. |
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This happens because the body reacts against the presence of the leprosy bacilli. |
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Those at one end of the spectrum with a high level of immunity harbour a low number of bacilli and are termed paucibacillary or PB patients. |
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This means that although they have leprosy bacilli in their body, there are too few to be seen in the smear. |
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Anionic acids kill most bacteria, fungi and viruses, but are not effective against tubercle bacilli and spores. |
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Those with many bacilli in the body are referred to as multibacillary or MB cases. |
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More than 2 billion people, one-third of the world's population, are infected with TB bacilli, over 90 percent of them in developing countries. |
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The bacilli were stained by osmic acid and not dissolved by potash tye. |
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We wish to report that the dextrorotatory acids of the lipids of human tubercle bacilli, hitherto believed to be saturated acids, are unsaturated acids. |
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Major and limb-threatening infections usually are polymicrobial and may involve aerobic gram positive cocci, gram negative bacilli, anaerobes, and enterococci. |
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The first is a population of actively growing bacilli present in liquefied caseous material of the tuberculous lesion and the lining of the walls of pulmonary cavities. |
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The leprosy bacilli will be seen as red rods on a blue background. |
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Because it takes the body a long time to clear the dead bacilli, people may still have episodes of Type 2 reaction years after stopping treatment. |
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The presence of leprosy bacilli in the skin smear. |
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Stains for acid-fast bacilli, fungi, bacteria, spirochetes, and cat-scratch bacilli were negative. |
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Analysis of the pericardial fluid was negative for bacteria, acid-alcohol resistant bacilli and neoplastic cells. |
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Solid caseation, as seen in tuberculomas, is not a feature but semi-liquid pus packed with bacilli is typical. |
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The multi-resistant forms of tuberculosis, a by-product of original bacilli resistant to the action of the main tuberculosis medicines, also present great difficulties in controlling the disease. |
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Myroides odoratum and odoratimimus are gram-negative, nonmotile, obligate aerobic bacilli with yellow pigmentation and a distinct fruity odor. |
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Both are nonlactose fermenting, facultatively anaerobic, gram-negative bacilli. |
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Her realization that some influenza bacilli cultures were resistant to antiobiotics as a result of genetic mutation directed her into the nascent field of microbiological genetics. |
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Sputum specimens for bacteria and viral, fungal, and acid-fast bacilli cultures were all negative. |
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Sputum cultures performed by infectious disease confirmed the presence of acid-fast bacilli. |
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Although no amenable to drainage, a diagnostic aspiration was performed and the specimen returned negative for acid-fast bacilli. |
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An added benefit is that unlike an antibiotic, the antitoxins needn't kill the bacilli. |
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Proteins from the dead bacilli provoke an allergic reaction. |
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Dysentery is caused by either protozoa bacilli. |
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Microbiologic assays resulted in the growth of large gram-positive bacilli that were identified as C perfringens. |
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In one type of reaction, immune cells crowd into the area in an attempt to seal off the bacterium, and in these areas very few bacilli can be found. |
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The definite diagnose is culture for tubercule bacilli, but it takes time, so workers try to find new methods. |
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Beraneck's tuberculin consists of equal parts of the filtrate of a culture of tubercle bacilli and a 1 per cent. orthophosphoric extract of the residue. |
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Pyrazinamide susceptibility and amidase activity of tubercle bacilli. |
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One lie in the presence of a policeman seemed to multiply like bacilli. |
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Miliary tuberculosis is a potentially lethal form of tuberculosis resulting from massive lymphohaematogeneous dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli. |
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Numerous studies have shown that Gram-negative bacilli ID scores are superior to Gram-positive cocci ID scores, particularly problematic streptococci. |
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Factors affecting the clinical value of microscopy for acid-fast bacilli. |
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Microscopic examination of the bronchial aspirate showed no squamous epithelial cells, a few gram-negative bacilli, leukocytes, and many ciliated bronchial cells. |
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