Research Advance of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis L-forms
- VernacularTitle:结核分枝杆菌L型的研究进展
- Author:
Hanfang JU
;
Defu ZHAO
;
Xiexiu WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Mycobacterium, tuberculosis;
Epidemiology, molecular;
Cell, cultured
- From:
Journal of Environment and Health
1989;0(06):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis L-forms(MTB-L), which has a deficient cell wall, shows various forms, various colors by acid-fast stain, osmosis pressure sensitivity and can not grow in normal isotonic culture medium, for all of the characters, misdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, difficulties of cure and recurrence became the crucial problems in the prevention and control of pulmonary tuberculosis. The recent research works on structure, biology, clinic, epidemiology and determination of MTB-L were reviewed in the present paper.
