Biomedical subjects
E W Abrahams
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Protection by BCG vaccination--a review of Australian epidemiology.
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Tuberculoid bacilli and tuberculoidosis.
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The pathogenicity and nomenclature of the mycobacteria.
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Tuberculin hypersensitivity following BCG vaccination in Brisbane school children.
Seven hundred and fifty Brisbane school children were tuberculin tested, in paired groups, with purified protein derivatives of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, bovis, BCG and avium. Reaction to avian PPD were stronger than to any of the others used. This finding may be of some importance in interpreting the variation in protection afforded by BCG vaccination.
Tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium kansasii.
Eighteen cases of tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium kansasii have been described. Eleven were from Western Australia and seven from Queensland. The symptoms, X-rays and histology of the disease were indistinguishable from those due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but the organisms were resistant to streptomycin, para-amino-salicylic (PAS) and isoniazid, but sensitive to ethionamide and cycloserine, and in most cases sensitive to rifampicin and ethambutol. All 18 cases were treated with some form of chemotherapy; three also had surgery.
Human pulmonary dirofilariasis associated with pleural effusion.
Tuberculosis, untreated pneumonia and other chest infections were excluded as possible causes of histological features observed in patient who had been discovered in a chest X-ray survey. Pleural effusion was eventually attributed to a dirofilarial granuloma found in a small pulmonary artery.
Serum agglutinins in disease caused by Mycobacterium intracellulare.
Serum from each of five persons with pulmonary mycobacteriosis due to Mycobacterium intracellulare contained agglutinins specific for the serotype of the causative organism. The findings suggest that the direct agglutination test may prove useful in diagnostic mycobacteriology.
Human pulmonary dirofilariasis in Queensland.
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'Original mycobacterial sin'.
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Studies with the purified protein derivative of human and avian tuberculins in South Queensland.
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Minor epidemics of tuberculosis.
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Sensitivity to avian and human PPD in Brisbane school children.
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Pulmonary calcification following chickenpox in childhood.
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Tuberculosis in indigenous Australians.
A comparative study of tuberculosis in Aboriginal and white Australians is presented. There is a much higher prevalence of disease in the Aboriginal population than in the white. From a study of the clinical features and response to treatment in paired cases, disease in the Aboriginal is found to be more acute, more extensive and more frequently non-pulmonary. As this disease pattern is unfamiliar to many Australian doctors, tuberculosis should enter into the differential diagnosis of all ill Aborigines.