(n.) A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Besides various skin tests with the antigens candida, trichophyton, mumps, streptokinase-streptodornase, tuberculin, DNCB and KLH also in vitro experiments measuring the immunoglobulin- and complement concentrations, the antibody production to KLH, the lymphocyte transformation rate to PHA, Pokeweed, Con A, PPD were done nearly in all patients.
(2) The augmentation of IgE-mediated reactions was maximal in tuberculin reactions elicited 1 week after active immunization but was still significant in reactions elicited 6 weeks after immunization.
(3) As a result, it has been found that some of these methods are subject to gross errors and that available figures are unreliable.For estimating the newly infected, a new approach based on the drawing of a curve for the distribution of differences in reaction size from one round of tuberculin testing to another is presented.
(4) The stimulatory effect of purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD) was high, whereas a Candida albicans antigen preparation gave a more variable stimulation of the synovial fluid lymphocytes.
(5) This repeated analysis should reassure physicians that isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for tuberculin skin test reactors is beneficial to the individual and consonant with public health policies.
(6) In humans, intracutaneous BCG immunization leads to positive tuberculin reaction in 6-10 weeks, and skin sensitivity lasts an average of about 4 years.
(7) Tuberculin reactions were mixtures of a perivascular monocytic response (delayed hypersensitivity) which developed early and was absent terminally, and a vasculonecrotic response which developed later and persisted to death of the bird.
(8) That the reaction between tuberculin and platelets is a lytic one was evidenced by observing the release of the cytoplasmic enzyme lactic dehydrogenase and efflux of rubidium-86.
(9) Among BCG-negative children aged 5-14 years, only 5% had a positive Mantoux, a rate lower than most Third World countries but higher than developed countries were under 2% of children are tuberculin reactors.
(10) Preventive therapy for the tuberculin positive, but disease-free child, is provided more cost-efficiently with 6 months than with 12 months of treatment with INH; less than 6 months is not adequate.
(11) Using the MIF-agarose assay, the effect of sera and synovial fluids on the tuberculin-induced migration inhibition was also studied.
(12) However, whereas talus and patella cartilage were affected by the disease, these and femoral-head cartilage seemed to be relatively spared when implanted in air pouches of adjuvant-diseased rats even after a massive inflammatory response was elicited in the cavity following challenge with tuberculin.
(13) Similar transient suppression of tuberculin reactivity by the eczematous inflammation of atopic dermatitis is now shown to occur.
(14) In cultivation of lymphoid cells of the same animals with a nonspecific antigen (tuberculin) the decanted fluids produced no significant cytotoxic action on mous fibroblasts.
(15) Sixty-four patients undergoing elective surgery (indications: 35 with aneurysms, 27 with aortoiliac disease, and two with renovascular disease) and nine patients undergoing emergency operation (indications: two with ruptured aneurysms, seven with aortoenteric fistulas) were skin tested when admitted to the hospital with five ubiquitous antigens (Candida, mumps, tuberculin, Trichophyton, and streptokinase-streptodornase [Varidase]) and read at 24 and 48 hours.
(16) There was no difference among the three strains in their ability to mount delayed hypersensitivity to tuberculin, nor in the response of their cells to PHA in vitro.
(17) Stimulation by the B-cell mitogens purified protein derivative-tuberculin, bacillus Calmette-Guérin, and lipopolysaccharide was consistently affected, but there was no inhibition of T-cells when human serum was added to concanavalin A-stimulated cultures.
(18) It was found that the ability to respond to tuberculin was completely abrogated by the injection of Marcol and could be restored by removing the oil from the peritoneal cavity.
(19) Antigen 60 (A60), a member of the thermostable macromolecular antigen family (TMA) and main component of old tuberculin and purified protein derivative (PPD), has been purified from the cytoplasm of Mycobacterium bovis BCG; its structure and metabolism have already been described.
(20) Tuberculosis infection level in children living together with subjects of groups I, II, Va, Vb and VII dispensary record and tuberculin sensitivity in adults were determined.
Tuberculosis
Definition:
(n.) A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption.
Example Sentences:
(1) The differential diagnosis is more complex in Hawaii due to the presence of granulomatous diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy.
(2) The course of urogenital tuberculosis is complicated by unspecific bacterial infections of the urinary tract and nephrolithiasis.
(3) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(4) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(5) Other organisms found together with N. miningitidis were H. influenzae (2 cases), S. dysgalactiae (1 case) and M. tuberculosis (1 case).
(6) The results of the examination of the tuberculosis cases detected during 7 years among the annually screened population are given.
(7) In view of its infrequent and vague presentation, care is required to avoid overlooking the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, particularly in the immigrant population.
(8) Two years' experience of a simple serological test for the diagnosis of tuberculosis has been evaluated.
(9) A diagnosis of unilateral tuberculosis of the conjunctiva was established in a 75-year-old female patient eight years after the first manifestations of disease.
(10) Differential diagnosis must include renal tuberculosis and renal carcinoma.
(11) The qualification for carrying on the isonicotinic acid hydrazide monotherapy in the tuberculosis cutis luposa and verrucosa is proved on the basis of bacteriological, pathologo-anatomical and clinical peculiarities of these forms of tuberculosis of the skin.
(12) Approximately 16,000 people were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2012 but were not given the treatment they needed to stay alive and prevent the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
(13) The risk of "Gesunde Befundträger" (healthy carriers of pulmonary lesions) to develop pulmonary tuberculosis is compared with that of persons with X-ray shadows in the lung.
(14) These findings are used to interpret published data from the chronic experimental murine tuberculosis model and support the view that in the mouse, the efficacy of RIF in widely spaced intermittent chemotherapy is the result of its long half-life.
(15) In tuberculosis this effect has been indirectly attributed to the production of cord factor (alpha,alpha-trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate).
(16) Twenty-two patients with radiologically localised pulmonary tuberculosis underwent one or more broncho-alveolar lavages: 10 patients had a single lavage in the disease area, 11 had two lavages (1 in a healthy zone and 1 in the affected zone) and 1 patient had a triple lavage.
(17) We concluded that IS986 is an extremely suitable tool for the diagnosis and epidemiology of tuberculosis.
(18) The in vitro susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to a new macrolide antibiotic RU-28965, alone and in combination with rifampicin or isoniazid, was studied by the agar dilution method.
(19) Tuberculosis of the cervix of the uterus is a rare form of genital tuberculosis.
(20) However, a review of 103 cases of tuberculosis presenting to a general hospital showed that 53% of the patients did not have fever when they first came to the outpatient clinic, and 10% did not have fever at any time while under observation.