Tuberculosis and Mycobacterial Disease
Jul.24, 2009 in
Bacterial Infectious Diseases (Including Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, and Legionella Infections)
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Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), a rod-shaped bacterium that requires special media for culture and that has the peculiarity of “acid-fastness” (resistance to decolorization by strong acidic decolorizing chemicals such as acid alcohol after being stained by certain stains such as carbol fuchsin). Tuberculosis is still very important and common despite advances in […]