Endogenous reactivation of tuberculosis as a result of reversion of persistent mycobacterial L-forms
Dorozhkova, I.R.; Zemskova, Z.S.; Krudu, V.N.; Kochetkova, E.I.
Problemy Tuberkuleza 3: 43-46
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-9533 PMID: 7617636 Document Number: 454379
Detection of L-transformed variants of M. tuberculosis and the study of qualitative-quantitative characteristics of isolated mycobacterial population provided additional information to available clinical x-ray evidence on the followed up patients. This allows more accurate estimation of reactivation risk, indications to chemotherapy and correction of follow-up policy.