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E BOGEN

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PubMed1959

The tuberculous diseases originating from different species of acid-fast bacilli.

Disease due to the typical human type tubercle bacillus is rapidly diminishing as a result of public health measures and specific chemotherapy. Lesions in man resulting from other kinds of acid-fast bacilli are now being recognized in increasing numbers. Some of these bacilli had been seen before but were confused with typical M. hominis, others were considered to be harmless saprophytes, while others could not be found with the methods used. Special culture media, different conditions for cultivation, new physical, chemical and biological tests, and inoculation into a variety of animal hosts are now available. With their use more than a dozen different strains of human type tubercle bacilli, and more than a score of other species of acid-fast bacilli may now be distinguished. A simple chemical test readily separates the human type tubercle bacilli from all other kinds of acid-fast bacilli. The differentiation of the different human and animal pathogenic acid-fast bacilli from the avirulent saprophytes and other harmless mycobacteria presents great difficulties, but methods are becoming available which usually make this possible. Since the distinction may be of great therapeutic and epidemiologic importance, the effort should be made.

Animals↗
PubMed1959

Tuberculosis; recent trends in infection, disease and deaths in California.

Although fewer patients with tuberculosis are reported in a far advanced stage of the disease than ever before, the proportion of persons dying of tuberculosis whose disease had not previously been diagnosed appears to be increasing. The average length of sanatorium treatment, and the intramural case fatality rates have not shown much decrease. Tuberculosis mortality rates fall during economic depressions and rise with business booms. Epidemics of influenza do not always increase tuberculosis death rates. Common claims to the contrary are not sustained by recent California data.

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