Streptomycin-resistant tubercle bacilli have been recovered after treatment in some cases of miliary tuberculosis 6,10 and tuberculous meningitis 10,11 in which there was no demonstrable cavitation.

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals ...

The era of effective chemotherapy began with the discovery of the action of streptomycin against the tubercle bacillus in 1944 and 1945. 1,2 Several extensive Cooperative studies, begun in 1946 ...

A 38-year-old doctor and microbiologist named Robert Koch methodically and in great detail used more than 200 microscopic preparations to identify the bacterium that causes tuberculosis: tubercle ...

The tubercle bacillus does not stain easily, but when it does, it clings tenaciously to the dye, in spite of immersion in alcohol and strong acids, and for this reason is called ” acid-fast.” ...

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacterium. The infection can occur in various organs in the body, such as in the lungs, in the brain, in the lymph nodes and in the ...

Importance of nutrition in treating tuberculosis: “A healthy diet is paramount for patients to recover from tuberculosis. A diet rich in protein helps build immunity against the tubercle bacilli ...

Heretofore the only effective preventive against tuberculosis has been a vaccine invented by a French bacteriologist, Albert Calmette and a French veterinarian, Charles Guerin, This BCG vaccine ...

If untreated, a choroidal tubercle may grow into a large tumor-like mass called tuberculoma. ... Intraocular involvement due to tuberculosis (TB) is being increasingly recognized.

Before the Great Influenza and COVID-19, the leading cause of death in many American cities was tuberculosis. In 1882, the pioneering German physician Dr. Robert Koch discovered tubercle bacillus ...

AN article on “Disease Germs,” by Dr. W. B. Carpenter, in the current number of the Nineteenth Century, contains the following:—“Another line of inquiry which has obviously the most ...