[The etiologic significance of ultrafine forms of the causative agent of tuberculosis in the development of sarcoidosis of the respiratory organs].
Pathological material, i. e. bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and blood plasma from patients with various pathological processes in the lungs was studied. Eighty seven patients with sarcoidosis of the respiratory organs were subjected to complex microbiological investigation and ultrasmall forms of tubercle bacilli were detected in BALF of 67 (77 per cent) of them. Histological examination revealed alveolitis and granulomas of lymphoid-macrophagal nature in the lungs of the experimental animals exposed to the material from the sarcoidosis patients.
Khomenko
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Golyshevskaia
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El'shanskaia
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Filippov
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000382:microbiology*
Etiologicheskoe znachenie ul'tramelkikh form vozbuditelia tuberkuleza v razvitii sarkoidoza organov dykhaniia.