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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.
Some 50 million people are infected with tubercle bacilli that are MDR.
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.
In such cases, newly selected drug-resistant bacilli may appear, leaving only second-line drugs that are more toxic and expensive.