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MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause of tuberculosis
Synonyms:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis; tubercle bacillus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mycobacterium tuberculosis" is a kind of...):
mycobacteria; mycobacterium (rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases)
Context examples:
Aminosalicylate sodium exerts its bacteriostatic activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis by competing with PABA for enzymes involved in folate synthesis, thereby suppressing growth and reproduction of M. tuberculosis, eventually leading to cell death.
(Aminosalicylate Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)
A bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and the spinal cord caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
(Meningeal Tuberculosis, NCI Thesaurus)
Aminosalicylic acid exerts its bacteriostatic activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis by competing with PABA for enzymes involved in folate synthesis, thereby suppressing growth and reproduction of M. tuberculosis, eventually leading to cell death.
(Aminosalicylic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition to sharing a number of common B and T cell determinants with Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium w (Mw) also shares an immunogenic determinant with prostate specific antigen (PSA).
(Mycobacterium w, NCI Thesaurus)
An orally available, acid-stable diamine antibiotic, with potential antimicrobial activity against a variety of bacteria including Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. Tuberculosis).
(Antibiotic SQ109, NCI Thesaurus)
Now, researchers from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and their colleagues have shown that simply changing the dose and route of administration from intradermal (ID) to intravenous (IV) greatly increases the vaccine’s ability to protect rhesus macaques from infection following exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacterium that causes TB.
(Changed route of immunization dramatically improves efficacy of TB vaccine, National Institutes of Health)
