Tuberculous bacillus in the course of acute non-tbc infectious diseases Troisier and Monaldi (Rg. Med., 1932, 96)

Troisier and Monaldi (Rg. Med., 1932, 96), having changed Lowenstein's method, performed blood cultures of patients who had one or another infectious disease. A.a. describe 3 cases, from the which VC were cultivated: 1st patient with endocarditis (blood culture produced non-hemolytic streptococcus) died septic cerebral infarction, autopsy did not reveal a single tbc focus. Nth. Croupous pneumonia (pneumococcus), ending in crisis on 6th day.