[Dynamics in bacterial isolation and antigenemia in patients with infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis].
A hundred patients with infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis were studied. They were examined for bacterial isolates and mycobacterial antigens in the immune complexes. The isolates were detected in 76%. In most cases, isolation stopped 3 months following chemotherapy and in the absolute majority of cases (except one) 9 months after. Isolation of L-forms remained for a longer period of time, at month 6 of therapy there was an increase in the number of patients who were found to have L-forms of the bacteria. Most (97%) patients with infiltrative tuberculosis displayed mycobacterial antigens circulating in the immune complexes. Antigenemia retained in a considerable (40%) number of patients long (up to 9 months) and in most cases with the unfavourable course of the disease.
Litvinov
V I
VI
Mikhaĭlova
I V
IV
Kapina
M A
MA
Baenskiĭ
A V
AV
Demíanenko
N V
NV
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000097:blood*; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013997:Time Factors; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology*
D000936:Antigen-Antibody Complex; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D000995:Antitubercular Agents
Dinamika bakteriovydeleniia i antigenemii u bolńykh infiltrativnym tuberkulëzom lëgkikh.