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PRONUNCIATION OF TUBERCLE BACILLUS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUBERCLE BACILLUS

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Tubercle bacillus is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TUBERCLE BACILLUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tubercle bacillus

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB, in the past also called phthisis, phthisis pulmonalis, or consumption, is a common, and in many cases fatal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air. Most infections do not have symptoms, known as latent tuberculosis. About one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of those so infected. The classic symptoms of active TB infection are a chronic cough with blood-tinged sputum, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. Infection of other organs causes a wide range of symptoms. Diagnosis of active TB relies on radiology, as well as microscopic examination and microbiological culture of body fluids. Diagnosis of latent TB relies on the tuberculin skin test and/or blood tests.

Definition of tubercle bacillus in the English dictionary

The definition of tubercle bacillus in the dictionary is a rodlike Gram-positive bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, that causes tuberculosis: family Mycobacteriaceae.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TUBERCLE BACILLUS

tubercle
tubercled
tubercula
tubercular
tubercular meningitis
tubercularly
tuberculate
tuberculately
tuberculation
tuberculin
tuberculin-tested
tuberculisation
tuberculise
tuberculization
tuberculize
tuberculoid
tuberculoma
tuberculomata
tuberculose
tuberculosis

WORDS THAT END LIKE TUBERCLE BACILLUS

actinobacillus
arillus
aspergillus
bacillus
callus
comma bacillus
gallus
lactobacillus
lapillus
Marcellus
microvillus
phallus
pneumobacillus
pullus
pulvillus
streptobacillus
Tellus
thallus
thiobacillus
villus

Synonyms and antonyms of tubercle bacillus in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tubercle bacillus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TUBERCLE BACILLUS

Find out the translation of tubercle bacillus to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tubercle bacillus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tubercle bacillus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

结核杆菌
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bacilo de la tuberculosis
570 millions of speakers

English

tubercle bacillus
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tubercle बेसिलस
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عصيات السل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

палочка Коха
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

o bacilo da tuberculose
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টিউবারেল ব্যাসিলাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bacille tuberculeux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bacillus tubercle
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tuberkelbazillus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

結核菌
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

결핵균
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tubercle bacillus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

củ trực khuẩn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Tubercle பேகிலஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्षयरोगीय बॅसिलस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tüberküloz basil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bacillo tubercolare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prątek gruźlicy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

паличка Коха
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tubercul bacil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φυματίωσης βάκιλο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

teringkiem
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tuberkelbacillerna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tuberkelbasillen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tubercle bacillus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TUBERCLE BACILLUS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TUBERCLE BACILLUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tubercle bacillus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUBERCLE BACILLUS»

Discover the use of tubercle bacillus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tubercle bacillus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tuberculosis and the Tubercle Bacillus
Divided into three comprehensive sections, this new volume begins with an examination of the current issues related to tuberculosis, including clinical and epidemiological features of the disease–causing strains.
Stewart T. Cole, 2005
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The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan
This usually, but not always, reveals whether a person has become infected with the tubercle bacillus. Definite diagnosis can be achieved only by a bacteriological examination. Whereas diagnosing tuberculosis is problematic except by ...
William Johnston, 1995
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An Introduction to Human Disease: Pathology and ...
The commonly used Mantoux skin test to detect infection with the tubercle bacillus is based on the presence or absence of a delayed hypersensitivity reaction to proteins of the tubercle bacillus. If an individual has had a previous contact with ...
Leonard V. Crowley, 2013
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Studies in Immunization Against Tuberculosis
In agreement with Citron 26 and others, we reserve the term for Koch's old tuberculin alone, which we believe to be essentially different from the preparations containing the tubercle bacillus substances. We are also in accord in this view with ...
Karl Von Ruck, Silvio Von Ruck, 2008
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Spreading Germs: Disease Theories and Medical Practice in ...
... before discussing the Tubercle bacillus and consumption in detail.'0 Whatever its status with medical understandings of consumption, the Tubercle bacillus was being used as a vehicle for the wider promotion of bacterial theories of disease.
Michael Worboys, 2000
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Textbook of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Vols 1 and 2
In 1882, Koch cultured the tubercle bacillus presenting his results in 1884 to the Berlin Physiological Society. He also presented in his paper, Koch's postulates, enunciating a specific discipline, which needs to be fulfilled if a specific organism  ...
PS Shankar, Suhail Raoof, Dheeraj Gupta, 2011
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Experimental Tuberculosis: Bacillus and Host (with an ...
THE PROTEINS OF THE TUBERCLE BACILLUS M. STACEY, Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. Chemistry Department, University of Birmingham. THE tubercle bacillus is an amazing chemical factory producing in the living cell and in the culture fluids a  ...
CIBA Foundation Symposium, 2009
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The Bacteriological Examination of Food and Water
Experiments have shown that the tubercle bacillus will remain alive for considerable periods in butter, i.e. five months or longer (Mohler, Washburn and Rogers). Teichert on the other hand only found the bacilli alive up to 18 days. To detect ...
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Natural History of Infectious Disease
The tubercle bacillus is a very inactive organism compared, for instance, with the bacilli of typhoid fever or diphtheria. When a suitable supply of food is provided, ordinary bacteria multiply rapidly; a single organism grows to double its original ...
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, David O. White, 1972
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A History of the Life Sciences, Revised and Expanded
Questioning the value of Koch's work on the “so-called tubercle bacillus,” Virchow argued that if the microbe were as widespread as Koch asserted while only certain individuals became consumptives, the true cause of tuberculosis could not ...
Lois N. Magner, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUBERCLE BACILLUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tubercle bacillus is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tuberculosis active in Western Australia's Kimberley region, but …
Tuberculosis or TB (short for tubercle bacillus) is caused by a number of strains of mycobacteria, a family of bacteria that causes a number of diseases in ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
2
Tuberculosis doctor's stubborn vision led to Seaside
Then, a German doctor identified the cause of the widespread plague as a bacterium, the tubercle bacillus. Maher went to medical school and never married, ... «theday.com, Jun 15»
3
Family life: A Scotsman abroad, Apache by the Shadows and …
My grandfather may have harboured the tubercle bacillus when he left Scotland for Burma on the SS Jaladuta in early 1934. Or perhaps he caught tuberculosis ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
4
Big Pharma Is Making Progress in Finding an Ebola Vaccine, But …
... public anthrax vaccine trial using farm animals in 1881, and Robert Koch's 1882 discovery of the tubercle bacillus, the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis, ... «The New Republic, Jan 15»
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Trend Shows 'Perfect Storm' for Diabetes, TB Co-Epidemics
“Given the fact that roughly about one-third of the global population is already infected with tubercle bacillus, [a bacterium that is the major cause of tuberculosis], ... «Voice of America, Nov 14»
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Opera North's Coronation of Poppea: a premium-rate sex-line of an …
Updated to the 1880s, with references to Gustave Eiffel's ferronnerie and Robert Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus in Madeleine Boyd's designs, ... «Spectator.co.uk, Oct 14»
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READ: "Back Channel to Cuba" Exposes the Hidden History of …
... leader, members of the covert “executive action” unit de- veloped a plot to contaminate the snorkel with tubercle bacillus, and poison the wetsuit with a fungus. «Democracy Now, Oct 14»
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Vegetables: useful pleasure
... multiforme cells (which often becomes the main cause of brain cancer), destroy diphtheria, tubercle bacillus and helicobacter (which causes stomach ulcers). «AzerNews, Jul 14»
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Book Review: 'The Remedy' by Thomas Goetz
The high point in his career came early, with his demonstration, in March 1882, of the tubercle bacillus, the organism that causes tuberculosis. Tuberculosis had ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 14»
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First burial 160 years ago
... was called consumption for a long time until 1882 when microbiologist Robert Koch discovered the tubercle bacillus. Then it began to be called Tuberculosis. «Alleynews, Sep 13»

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