One of the biggest obstacles to the correct diagnosis and efficient treatment of tuberculosis is the absence of a rapid technique for culturing tubercle bacilli and for testing their susceptibility to antituberculosis drugs. Current procedures typically take 6-10 weeks to perform. This article describes a simple, rapid, reliable and cheap method of culturing tubercle bacilli using a liquid medi...

OBJECTIVE To use an automated method to detect tubercle bacilli in sputum specimens. STUDY DESIGN Using fluorescence microscopy, tubercle bacilli were identified on auramine-stained sputum specimens. Images were then captured with a digital camera and enhanced through imaging processing techniques. The bacilli were recognized using neural network classifiers. RESULTS This preliminary invest...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Description of the tubercle-count method 4. Resistance to the establishment of the infection 5. Immune mechanisms controlling the progress of the early microscopic pulmonary lesion 6. How vaccines prevent grossly visible TB lesions 7. Effects of vaccines on the 5 stages of tuberculosis 7.1 Stage 1. Destruction of the bacillus by alveolar macrophages 7.2 Stage 2. S...

Dens evaginatus is an uncommon developmental anomaly of human dentition characterized by the presence of tubercle on the occlusal surface of mandibular premolars and lingual surface of anterior teeth. Due to occlusal trauma this tubercle tends to fracture thus exposing the pathway to the pulp chamber of teeth. This case report is about the presentation of dens evaginatus in mandibular premolars...

BACKGROUND It has already been shown in animals and using anatomical human specimens that chronic slippage of the adolescent upper (capital) femoral epiphysis is unlikely to take place by shearing due to the presence of an epiphyseal tubercle projecting down into the metaphysis. MATERIAL, RESULTS, AND INTERPRETATION Plain radiographs of 20 adolescents and CT scans of 9 of them were analyzed f...

Reactions of mice to the injection of tubercle bacilli and to their various fractions have been presented in an earlier communication."4 The experiments here described were designed to determine quantitatively the degree of the resistance to infection and to gain insight into the processes which enable mice not only to withstand but even to eliminate relatively extensive tuberculous infection. ...