Clinical experience on mycobacterial diseases other than tuberculos- is.

Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases in Cats

Tuberculosis can be caused by a number of different, but closely related, bacteria. Members of the tuberculosis complex include Mycobacterium (M.) tuberculosis, M. bovis and M. microti. M. tuberculosis causes over 90% of tuberculosis in man, but rarely infects other mammals, except for dogs. M. bovis is the main cause of tuberculosis in cattle. It can also infect various other mammals, includin...

INTERNA TIONAl JOURNAL OF lEPROSY And Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Anti genic analysis of mycobacteria by agar-diffusion, first reported by Parlett and Youmans ( 14 ), has been developed by many investigators ( 15, 16, 22) and applied to serologic identification and classification of mycobacteria. Recently, Fukui et aZ. (10) reported that an antigen of M. Zepraemllrium may be identical with the avian y antigen. However, little is known regardin g the antigenic...

Occupational lung diseases other than asthma.

Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals

Although Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae are the most notable mycobacterial human pathogens, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium, Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, Mycobac-terium ulcerans, and other mycobacteria are the etiology of important diseases in humans and a wide range of Moreover, species such as M. bovis represent serious zoonotic patho...

Weaning in children with congenital heart diseases from nutritional tube is easier than in other children.

results in these children. Usually they are overfed and show normal oral intake and operation time was not delayed. As hypotheses, we believe that easier weaning of the cardiological ill children is caused by overfeeding supported by nutritional tubes. In clinical experience, all these children are fed by tube to gain weight for better operability [6] . Most of them do not loose much weight dur...