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In this sense, immunity may be the result of infection caused by other mycobacteria, or the result of vaccination of bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), or the result of natural infection with mycobacteria, which common in the environment.... (Brennan, 2009, 335) In the case of infection in organism the protein antigen mycobacteria are always present in association with this set of adjuvants.... The research demonstrates a long history of search for a protective vaccine against tuberculosis and evaluates the problem of complications of BCG vaccination....
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Background: Tuberculosis meningitis is an infection caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis that initially starts as an infection in the lungs, and progressively develops in the bloodstream once the bacteria have multiplied.... In TB meningitis, mycobacterium tuberculosis eventually spread through the meninges of the brain or the spinal cord (Meningitis UK, 2009).... Tuberculosis is the severest form of mycobacterium tuberculosis and is the leading cause of fatality around the world....
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic disease in humans resulting from mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.... Because of the intracellular nature of infection, drugs developed against TB should be able to reach within cells (Feltcher, Sullivan and Braunstein 1582).... In the worst clinical presentation, tuberculosis presents with serious necrotic to caseating granulomatous lesions in the lungs and other extra-pulmonary organs, such as the brain and liver....
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mycobacterium tuberculosis mycobacterium tuberculosis is a slow-growing facultative, highly adaptable bacterium that can grow under different environments and conditions.... The purified protein derivative (PPD)-tuberculin skin test is the only known test that can detect the infection of mycobacterium tuberculosis, but care should be given in interpreting the results.... Co-infection with other diseases increases the difficulty in treating the tuberculosis....
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Mycobacterium leprae & mycobacterium tuberculosis Type of Assignment Professor Name Here Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Course Number By Your Name City May 2012 Mycobacterium leprae & mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium leprae (M.... leprae) and mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.... mycobacterium tuberculosis The general features about the M.... tuberculosis) are the major pathogens that belong to the genus, Mycobacterium....
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The prominent reason for this is emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of mycobacterium tuberculosis throughout the globe.... In an attempt to answer questions as to why particularly this is a problem, researches revealed that despite newer drugs are developed that are effective against tuberculosis, stringent adherence to therapy with baseline drugs offered in a multi-drug regimen is still the best line of therapy, and non-adherence to the regimen with incomplete therapeutic course leads to changes in the mycobacterium tuberculosis in the genetic and molecular levels are responsible for this....
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So, it is important to go through the histopathological changes taking place in the lung related to primary and secondary infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis.... rimary infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis mainly affects human respiratory system (lungs).... 156) state that ‘More than 2 billion persons are infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis, and from this reservoir active tuberculosis will develop in millions of persons in coming decades....
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The agent that causes TB (mycobacterium tuberculosis) has developed to rest many antibiotic drugs like pyrazinamide and Ethambutol.... This work called "tuberculosis" describes a potentially serious infectious disease that mainly affects your lungs.... The 2007 World tuberculosis Day had the theme 'TB anywhere is TB everywhere'.... The attempts to control TB have faced threats; these threats are: i) spread of drug resistance TB, ii) difficulty to institute a successful diagnosis and treatment to TB patients that are HIV- infected, and iii) lack of sufficient funds to control TB....
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