Bacilli
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Some 50 million people are infected with tubercle
bacilli
that are MDR.
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So at 12 o'clock, you'll see that offices have a lot of alphaproteobacteria, and at one o'clock you'll see that
bacilli
are relatively rare.
Indeed, the Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is almost 100 years old, while the most widely used diagnostic test, microscopic detection of
bacilli
in sputum, was developed 130 years ago.
But, unlike flu, TB
bacilli
can survive in the lungs for years, surrounded by a "protective" wall built by the human immune system.
Diagnosis is cheap, simple, and quick: for a few US cents, microscopic examination of a sputum smear can reveal the
bacilli
in less than 1 hour.
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