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| | Division of Tuberculosis Elimination - Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis |
 | | However, patients with drug-resistant disease may take longer to respond to therapy, especially if drug resistance is not suspected and they are not receiving effective therapy. | | | Drug-resistant mutants are selected when therapy is inadequate, for example, when a single drug is used to treat a large population of bacilli. | | | This belief was largely based on animal studies that showed that isoniazid-resistant bacilli were less virulent than isoniazid-susceptible bacilli. |
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http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/mdrtb/mdrtb.htm
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| | (Page 15 of 16) Module 3: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease |
| | The drug susceptibility pattern of a strain of tubercle bacilli is the list of drugs to which the strain is susceptible and to which it is resistant. | | | Patients who have many tubercle bacilli in their sputum have a positive smear. | | | The results of the smear examination can be used to help determine the infectiousness (contagiousness) of the patient. |
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http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/tbmodules/modules1-5/m3/3-m-08.htm
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| | eMedicine - Cutaneous Tuberculosis : Article by Monte S Meltzer, MD |
| | Tubercle bacilli are difficult to demonstrate, but patients usually have an internal focus of TB and are tuberculin sensitive, and skin lesions resolve after anti-TB therapy. | | | Papulonecrotic tuberculid occurs as a chronic and recurrent symmetric eruption of necrotizing skin papules appearing in clusters and healing with varioliform scars. | | | Erythema induratum is a persistent or recurring condition associated with past or active TB. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic434.htm
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| | Enteric Bacilli |
| | Though this test is quite helpful and reliable for distinguishing among the coliforms, it contributes little toward characterizing other enteric bacilli. | | | They are commonly and rather arbitrarily divided into two large groups: 1) the "Pathogens", i.e., those associated with specific diseases, e.g., Shigella flexneri with human dysentery, and 2) the "Opportunists," those of relatively less virulence which are sometimes associated with pneumonia, cystitis or meningitis. | | | Only a few representative species will be studied in this exercise but all techniques can be applied to any organisms found in fecal samples. |
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http://www.bsu.edu/web/00cewarnes/Bio_341/Lab_9.htm
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| | Pharmaceutical compositions for promoting the growth of gram-positive bacilli and increasing the acidity in the vagina ... |
| | Such amino-acids or vitamins are not available in conventional in vitro experiments and should be added when in vitro experiments are carried out for the composition of the invention. | | | Seen from above analysis, the technologies and compositions of this invention actually enhance the natural physiological anti-disease mechanisms in the vagina and fundamentally avoid and overcome the disadvantages of the disturbance of vaginal bacterial flora by anti-bacterial treatment, therefore have remarkable advantages. | | | Therefore, it remains very difficult to restore the physiological conditions dominated by the Gram-positive bacillus-flora and to restore the vaginal acidity to its normal value. |
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http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6964949.html
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| | [Frontiers in Bioscience 3, c27-33, May 1, 1998] |
| | Most TB researchers agree that humans are much more resistant than guinea pigs to both human- and bovine-type virulent tubercle bacilli, and that humans are somewhat more susceptible than rabbits to the human-type. | | | In humans, such tubercles would also take many months to heal or stabilize, and some of these lesions would progress to clinically active disease. | | | AM are not immunocytes and therefore do not recognize specific antigens. |
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http://www.bioscience.org/1998/V3/c/dannenbe/c27-33.htm
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| | Medmicro Chapter 20 |
| | This endotoxin exhibits little biologic activity in various test systems and little chemotactic activity; what activity there is is complement-mediated by the alternative pathway. | | | Immunoglobulin and components of the classic and alternative complement pathways participate in chemotaxis, bacteriolysis, and opsonophagocytic killing of various Gram-negative anaerobic bacilli. | | | Control involves (1) surgical drainage of abscesses and debridement of necrotic tissue; and (2) use of antimicrobials (particularly metronidazole, imipenem, chloramphenicol, or combinations of amoxicillin, ticarcillin, ampicillin or piperacillin with ß-lactamase inhibitors). |
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http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch020.htm
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| | Typhoid Bacilli Carriers |
| | Rosenau, Washington, D. C.: I can not take Dr. Park's place, but feel sure that if he were here he would say that "typhoid Mary" refuses to submit to surgical interference. | | | Surgical interference therefore may not always correct the condition. | | | I feel certain that other epidemics I have observed in the past were caused by individuals of this kind. |
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http://learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/disease/docs/park2.html
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| | WHO Tuberculosis |
| | Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious. | | | When someone's immune system is weakened, the chances of becoming sick are greater. | | | Drug-resistant TB is caused by inconsistent or partial treatment, when patients do not take all their medicines regularly for the required period because they start to feel better, because doctors and health workers prescribe the wrong treatment regimens, or because the drug supply is unreliable. |
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http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en
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| | Medmicro Chapter 18 |
| | Clostridia are strictly anaerobic to aerotolerant sporeforming bacilli found in soil as well as in normal intestinal flora of man and animals. | | | Patients can present with a spectrum of disease that varies from uncomplicated antibiotic-associated diarrhea to antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis that may be fatal. | | | By the time the typical lesions of gas gangrene are evident, the disease usually is firmly established and the physician must treat the patient on a clinical basis without waiting for laboratory confirmation. |
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http://gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/ch018.htm
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| | "Tuberculosis in animals: Mycobacterium bacilli that cause devastating zoonotic diseases in many animals" |
| | Tuberculosis is one of the oldest of the recognized diseases in humans and animals. Egyptian mummies show typical lesions of the disease. Ancient manuscripts indicate that the disease existed when humans began living in villages. | | | The disease may be contracted in a variety of ways and affects many organs of the body. | | | Once the bacilli get into a susceptible organism, a number of events occur which cause the characteristic disease. It generally starts in the areas where the exposure occurs. The lungs are often attacked, but other parts of the body can be affected. |
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http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/TB/TBMain.htm
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| | lentum are small bacilli that are indole and catalase negative, nitrate positive and arginine stimulation test positive.. | | | Aerotolerant, anaerobic, grampositive bacilli are resistant to metronidazole.. | | | Most grampositive nonsporeforming bacilli are motile but have variable morphologies. |
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http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/bbs/infdis/chap36
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| | Typhoid Bacilli Carriers |
| | Klinger examined the feces of 1,700 healthy persons who had never knowingly had typhoid and found bacilli in 11. | | | In 1902 won Drigalski and Conradi found typhoid bacilli in stools of four persons who had had no typhoid fever symptoms, but had been in contact with typhoid patients. | | | Lentz suggest that the gall bladder may not be the only source, but that the appendix and the deeper folds of the intestine may also be involved. |
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http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/disease/docs/park.html
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| | (Page 4 of 9) Module 5: Infectiousness and Infection Control |
| | Does the chest x-ray show that the patient has a cavity in the lung? | | | The presence of tubercle bacilli on a sputum smear indicates that the patient may be expelling tubercle bacilli. | | | The presence of acid-fast bacilli on a sputum smear indicates that the patient may be expelling tubercle bacilli. |
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http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/PHTN/tbmodules/modules1-5/m5/5-m-02.htm
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| | Bacteria, gram negative bacilli |
| | The gram negative facultative bacilli represent by far the most numerous group of clinical bacteria. | | | These distinctions are useful in the accurate identification of the organisms, although automation of the determinations of the biochemical reaction patterns of the gram negative bacilli have made a rigorous knowledge of specific patterns by a technician somewhat less important than in the past for those locations where such automation exists. | | | Where automation exists an isolated colony can be dispersed in a small amount of solution and placed in a machine which, in most instances, will deliver both the antibiotic susceptibility pattern and the id results within about eight hours. |
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http://www.buddycom.com/bacteria/gnr.html
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| | Comments on the armadillo-leprosy controversy |
| | According to Dr. Wayne Meyers, a past President of the International Leprosy Association, "many opportunities for research using the armadillo model on epidemiology, transmission and pathogenesis of leprosy were lost because of 'deep seated controversy'." | | | The shortfall of bacilli that ensued had an adverse effect on all phases of leprosy research requiring large numbers of bacilli. | | | The hypothesis that laboratory reared armadillos may result in enhanced yields has not been tested in a controlled scientific study and it is unclear why Dr. Storrs did not pursue this proposal anytime over the last 25 years of her scientific career. |
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http://uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/Burchfield/alc12.html
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| | The Safety of Capsules Containing Lactic Acid Bacilli |
| | Male Sprague Dawley rats weighing about 220-250g and aged between 53 to 58 weeks were purchased from the Institute of Medical Research and housed in the pharmacology laboratory of the Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, UKM. | | | Some may be tempted to say "but, these are natural products!" however; it must be borne in mind that some of the most powerful toxins known to man are natural substances. | | | In the last decade or so, with increasing interest in natural foods, the number of such products has increased. |
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| | Anaerobic, non-sporulating, Gram-positive bacilli bacteraemia characterized by 16S rRNA gene sequencing -- Lau et al. ... |
| | Characteristics of the 16 patients with clinically significant bacteraemia due to anaerobic, non-sporulating, Gram-positive bacilli For all patients, the anaerobic, non-sporulating, Gram-positive bacilli were isolated once from their blood cultures. | | | Comparison of characteristics of patients with clinically significant bacteraemia and those with pseudobacteraemia due to anaerobic, non-sporulating, Gram-positive bacilli | | | bacilli will better define the epidemiology, clinical significance |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 6, Ch. 73, Pneumonia |
| | Gram-negative bacilli should be suspected in a patient with pneumonia who is in one of the risk categories noted above, especially with neutropenia or nosocomial pneumonia. | | | Gram-negative bacilli colonize the upper airways in patients who have serious underlying diseases with a frequency directly correlated with disease severity. | | | Sputum cultures usually yield the pathogen; false-positive cultures due to organisms that colonize the upper airways are the major problem, especially in patients previously treated with an antibiotic for pneumonia due to other bacteria. |
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| | Moldlab - Bacteria Glossary |
| | Dermabacter (Der-ma-back-tur)— Genus of Gram-positive bacilli found on human skin that can be associated with opportunistic infections. | | | Pseudomonas (Sue-dough-moan-us)- These gram-negative bacilli are widely found in nature. | | | In humans, these can be opportunistic pathogens that may lead to diarrhea and bacteremia. |
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| | Dorlands Medical Dictionary |
| | It is applied topically to the skin or conjunctiva in the treatment of infections caused by susceptible organisms. | | | The strain, commonly called BCG, is used for immunization of humans against tuberculosis and in cancer chemotherapy. | | | The term generally is used to refer to the genera Citrobacter, Escherichia, Edwardsiella, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, and Serratia. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 13, Ch. 157, Bacterial Diseases |
| | Typhoid bacilli may be isolated for as long as 3 to 6 mo after the acute illness in persons who do not become carriers; thereafter, three negative stool cultures at weekly intervals must be acquired to exclude a carrier state. | | | Typhoid bacilli are usually isolated from cultures of blood or bone marrow only during the first 2 wk of illness, while stool cultures are usually positive during the 3rd to 5th wk. | | | If antibiotic therapy is reinstituted at the time of relapse, the fever abates rapidly, unlike the slow defervescence seen during the primary illness. |
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| | Military Medicine: Bullets and Bacilli: The Spanish-American War and Military Medicine |
| | Widal found that the sera of 45/45 typhoid fever patients agglutinated the typhoid bacilli, whereas sera from all 200 non-typhoid cases were negative. | | | Cirillo's book highlights the dichotomy and does so for the first time in the context of the germ theory. | | | Military Medicine: Bullets and Bacilli: The Spanish-American War and Military Medicine |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3912/is_200409/ai_n9432773
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| | (Page 8 of 11) Module 1: Transmission and Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis |
| | The bacilli may reach any part of the body, including areas where TB disease is more likely to develop (such as the lungs, kidneys, brain, or bone). | | | This process can occur in different places in the body, such as the lungs, kidneys, brain, or bone (see diagram in box 3). | | | The risk that TB disease will develop is higher for some people than for others. |
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| | Dr. Wilhelm Reich: Scientific Genius — or Medical Madman? By ALAN CANTWELL, Jr., M.D. |
| | Reich concluded “the disposition to cancer is therefore determined by the biological resistance of the blood and the tissues to putrefaction. | | | The blood of cancer patients produced T-bacilli easily and quickly. | | | After much study, Reich named his newly-discovered cancer microbes “T” bacilli, after the German word “Tod”, meaning death. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 13, Ch. 157, Bacterial Diseases |
| | Listeriaceae are gram-positive, non-acid-fast, noncapsulated, nonsporulating, motile, facultatively anaerobic bacilli that are found worldwide in the environment and in the gut of nonhuman mammals, birds, arachnids, and crustaceans. |
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| | Enteric Bacilli, Enterobactericae, Enterobacteria Infection |
| | AIDS patients suffer salmonellosis frequently (20 fold greater than the general population) and suffer from recurrent episodes. | | | The enterobacteriacae, together with the gram-negative vibrios, are also frequently referred to as enteric bacilli or enterics. | | | The term enterics has sometimes been extended loosely to include other aerobic gram-negative bacilli occasionally found in the gut, such as pseudomonas. |
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| | Gallery of Histology © Woods and Ellis 2000 |
| | Acid fast bacilli stained by the Ziehl-Neelsen technique | | | Ellis and Zabrowarny technique for acid fast bacilli | | | DNA and RNA in human liver stained using methyl green-pyronin |
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| | occurs naturally,the tetanus bacilli stay at the site of the initial infection and are not generally invasive,but the toxin diffuses to affect the relevant level of the spinal cord (local tetanus) and then to affect the entire system (generalized tetanus) | | | the spores of the clostridia and their vegetative bacilli cannot readily initiate infection in healthy tissues because the Eh is too high and the organisms and spores are unable to avoid destruction and clearance by phagcytosis |
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| | Bacteria, gram positive bacilli |
| | There were only a few genera of them so we decided to begin with them. | | | Anaerobic gram-positive bacilli are more well known than some of their aerobic counterparts; everybody in the known world has heard of the Clostridia. | | | Which is why our stomach turns whenever we are encouraged to eat natoh. |
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