Background: Diabetes is an important metabolic disease with myriad manifestations and complications, affecting many people. Cutaneous infections impact numerous diabetic patients. Among different bacterial infections in diabetic patients, the infections caused by mycobacteria other than Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MOTT) eventuate in complications owing to the paucity of accurate detection...

Menaquinones were the only isoprenoid quinones found in 48 corynebacteria and actinomycete strains examined. Dihydromenaquinones having nine isoprene units were the main components isolated from Gordona, Mycobacterium, Corynebacterium bovis, Corynebacterium glutamicum and a strain labelled Nocardia farcinica, but dihydromenaquinones having eight isoprene units were characteristic of other Coryn...

Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Rifampin Resistance in Pulmonary Extra-pulmonary Clinical Specimens Using the Gene Xpert MTB/RIF Assay

Tuberculosis is a vagarious infectious disease that generally affects the lungs. Accordingly, in some cases, it can also affect the liver and kidney. Host genetic may affect tuberculosis caused by bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The main risk factors for the disease are a weakened immune system because of diabetes, some cancers, HIV/AIDS, severe kidney disease, cancer treatment, a...

background: beijing family of mycobacterium tuberculosis (m. tuberculosis) is widespread in asia and has been involved in outbreaks of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in various parts of the world.  the aim of the current study was to evaluate the frequency of beijing family of m. tuberculosis in patients with tuberculosis in mashhad, iran. materials and methods: totally, 72 specimens of m. tu...

background medicinal plants have been used traditionally in golestan province (north of iran), against mycobacterium tuberculosis or the clinical signs of tuberculosis (tb). objectives this study aimed to define the inhibitory effects of ethanolic extracts of six of these medicinal plants against mycobacterium tuberculosis. materials and methods peganum harmala (seed extract), punica granatum (...

Tuberkuliozė (TB) – tai infekcinė, uždegiminė liga, sukeliama mikobakterijų, priklausančių Mycobacterium tuberculosis kompleksui. TB įprastai yra lėtinė liga ir dažniausiai pažeidžia plaučius.

A case is presented of coinfection with Mycobacterium malmoense and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a Cuban patient with AIDS which produced respiratory and liver disease respectively. Cultures done from sputum samples showed the presence of a non-pigmented, slow growing mycobacterial strain belonging to Runyon group III and identified as Mycobacterium malmoense. From cultures of liver tissue rem...

At the time macrophages phagocyte against Mycobacterium tuberculosis entry, it occurs respiratory burst, and become the initial formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Reactive oxygen species such as nitric oxide and oxygen radicals kill the mycobacterium bacteria. However, Mycobacterium tuberculosis has an antioxidant that plays a role in redox homeostasis system which protects itself from...