A blinded comparison of peptide nucleic acid-fluorescence in situ hybridization (PNA-FISH) with routine identification methods was performed on 74 consecutively positive mycobacterial liquid cultures. All Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures (48 of 48) and 22 of 27 (81. 5%) nontuberculous cultures were correctly identified (including one mixed culture). Five isolates yielded no reaction with eit...

Viable cells of Micrococcus luteus secrete a factor, which promotes the resuscitation and growth of dormant, nongrowing cells of the same organism. The resuscitation-promoting factor (Rpf) is a protein, which has been purified to homogeneity. In picomolar concentrations, it increases the viable cell count of dormant M. luteus cultures at least 100-fold and can also stimulate the growth of viabl...

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the germ Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The group of bacteria in addition to tuberculosis that can cause disorders airways known as MOTT (Mycobacterium Other Than Tuberculosis), which sometimes interfere with enforcement TB diagnosis and treatment. (TB) a high burden for Indonesia, not only because itself, but also its resistant several first-line dr...

http://www.journal-imab-bg.org / J of IMAB. 2015, vol. 21, issue 3/ ABSTRACT: Background: Mycobacterium gordonae is a slow growing mycobacterium usually found in soil, tap water, and as laboratory contaminant. It is occasionally implicated in different infections in immunosuppressed patients. In contrast, there have been few case reports of active infection in immunocompetent individuals. Case ...

The genus Mycobacterium comprises significant pathogenic species that infect both humans and animals. One species within this genus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the primary killer of humans resulting from bacterial infections. Five mycobacterial genomes belonging to four different species (M. tuberculosis, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosi...

results results of the current study showed that the minimum inhibitory concentration value of cinnamaldehyde against m. tuberculosis was 200 µg/ml. moreover, rt-pcr data showed that a total of 25 genes were regulated by the cinnamaldehyde. of these, 12 genes were up-regulated, and 13 genes were down-regulated. conclusions cinnamaldehyde is a pattern to expand the new anti-tb drugs, because the...

background and objectives: tuberculosis (tb) is the oldest known bacterial disease in humans. due to the rise of morbidity in recent years, early diagnosis of the disease is necessary. materials and methods: in this study we used fluorescent amplification–based specific hybridization (flash) pcr to target is6110 for rapid detection of m. tuberculosis (mtb). to investigate the important factors ...

background and objectives: hbha and mtb32c have been isolated from culture supernatants of mycobacterium tu- berculosis (m. tuberculosis) and mycobacterium bovis (m. bovis) and their immunogenicity previously studies have been confirmed. in this study, capability of constructed vector containing two mycobacterial immunodaminant antigens (mt- b32c-hbha), in producing new chimeric protein under t...

at present, most of iran is free of bovine tuberculosis (tb). the strategy of control and eradication in iran involves a tuberculation test and slaughter of reactors, a procedure transformed the present-day prevalence of tb into a sporadic occurrence. this paper describes the first report of bovine tuberculosis in a european fallow deer ( dama dama dama ) in iran. the deer was emaciated and fou...

a b s t r a c t a few case reports of coinfections with nocardia and mycobacterium tuberculosis (tb) have previously been published in the literature. we report on a case of concomitant pulmonary nocardiosis and tuberculosis, in a recently diagnosed 55-year-old woman, with rheumatoid arthritis, who had been taking a short course of a low dose corticosteroid. the patient was treated with a combi...