The significance of L-form mycobacteria in the development of pulmonary tuberculosis
Snitinskaia, O.S.; Sibirnaia, R.I.; Beliakova, O.I.
Vrachebnoe Delo 3: 38-40
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0049-6804 PMID: 2114701 Document Number: 356261
It was established by means of bacteriological examination that L-forms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are isolated in 42% of freshly detected cases with different clinical forms of tuberculosis of the respiratory organs. It was found that the isolated strains of microorganisms induce in guinea pigs a disease against the background of disorders of the general and specific immunological reactivity.