IT is well known fact that acid-fast bacilli, virulent and rendered resistant to isonicotinic acid hydrazide become catalase-negative. The saprophytic bacilli, on the other hand, grown in even high ...

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In order to assess the clinical value of microscopy for acid-fast bacilli (AFB), the results of 3,207 clinical specimens submitted for mycobacterial smear and culture were analyzed. Mycobacteria grew ...

IN August 1954 a large epitheloid granuloma containing acid-fast bacilli was observed in a lung from Cape hyrax (locally known as ‘dassie’). This particular animal had been received from New Bethesda, ...