Articles on Medical Diseases and Conditions

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 […]

Primary glomerular renal disease for a long time was subdivided into glomerulonephritis (acute, subacute, chronic) and the nephrotic syndrome, based on clinical and light microscopic findings. With the advent of renal biopsy, electron microscopy, and immunoglobulin fluorescent staining of tissue sections, the clinical categories are being reclassified on the basis of ultrastructure and immunologic characteristics […]