Additionally, among 33,937 cases with an acid-fast-bacilli-smear-positive result, 70.9% had an NAA test performed, whereas 38% of the 30,244 with an acid-fast-bacilli-smear-negative result had an ...

Methods: Between 1 January 2017 and 30 June 2022, 365 patients who underwent fibreoptic bronchoscopy and had positive acid-fast smears of BALF were examined using Xpert MTB/RIF.

Stained sputum smears revealed acid-fast bacilli, and subsequent cultures grew niacin-positive, catalase-positive organisms identified as typical Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

IT HAS been shown that para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) has a definite bacteriostatic effect on human strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro 1–4 and in vivo. 3–9 It is also known that ...

Tuberculosis is a chronic bacterial disease caused by the infective agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2014, 9.6 million cases of tuberculosis and 1.5 million deaths were recorded throughout the ...

Emmanuelle Sacco, Adrian Suarez Covarrubias, Helen M. O'Hare, Paul Carroll, Nathalie Eynard, T. Alwyn Jones, Tanya Parish, Mamadou Daffé, Kristina Bäckbro, Annaïk Quémard, The Missing Piece of the ...