Immunotherapy for tuberculosis: what's the better choice?

THE DETECTION OF Mycobacterium tuberculosis BY PCR IN SPUTUM SAMPLES FROM LONG-TERMTREATED LEPROSY PATIENTS: ASSOCIATIONS WITH SKIN TEST RESULTS AND IMMUNOTHERAPY WITH Mycobacterium vaccae

As part of a series of investigations at Baba Baghi Leprosarium in lran, 44 long-treated leprosy patients were selected for our study. Samples of early morning sputum were obtained from each patient, examined by microscopy for acid-fast bacilli (AFB), and cultured for tubercle bacilli. These tests were negative, but the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for an insertion sequence believed to b...

Immunotherapy with Mycobacterium vaccae and the treatment of tuberculosis.

In this study, 206 previously untreated patients with sputum culture positive pulmonary tuberculosis were randomized to receive an injection of killed Mycobacterium vaccae as immunotherapy, or of saline as placebo, after 1 month of a 6-month chemotherapeutic regime. Not surprisingly in a disease for which there is good chemotherapy, the difference in numbers which were culture negative at the e...

Immunotherapy for tuberculosis: future prospects

Tuberculosis (TB) is still a major global health problem. A third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Only ~10% of infected individuals develop TB but there are 9 million TB cases with 1.5 million deaths annually. The standard prophylactic treatment regimens for latent TB infection take 3-9 months, and new cases of TB require at least 6 months of treatment wit...

Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children--what's new?

A survey of knowledge and attitude in medication controls of tuberculosis patients reffering to Zahedan anti T.B centers in 1999.

  Tuberculosis is still known as the most fatal disease of man caused by a single microbe.according to the report of world Health organizition ,contaminition of about half of the population of the world by My cobactrrium tuberculosis and nine million cases  of  tuberculosis anually as well as appearance of the resistant forms of tuberculosis has made it  one of the health diffeculties in the w...