A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear ...

Kurt Heissmeyer injected live tubercle bacilli (bacteria that are a major cause of TB) into the lungs of inmates at the Neuengamme concentration camp. About 200 adult subjects died, and Heissmeyer ...

Researchers experimented with two bacteria: Streptomyces sp and Bacillus subtilis. These bacteria are natural competitors, and both are commonly found in soil. They observed that in an enclosed ...

Experts are of the opinion that early diagnosis is the key to effective leprosy treatment. If left undiagnosed because of ...

Robert Koch linked anthrax bacilli with disease pathogenesis and formulated postulates for defining such pathogenesis. Shortly after, in 1881, Louis Pasteur treated anthrax with a live bacterial ...

† VIMs are made up of 266 amino acid residues with the exception of VIM-7 (265 residues) and VIM-18 (262 residues). VIM-21, -22 and -27 have been assigned in the Lahey Clinic [201], but there ...