Medical Advances and Case Report

Emergence of Pleomorphic in pathogenic bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)

Abstract


Archaniotis I. Vasilios, Wozniak Greta

Mycobacterium tuberculosis still remains a substantial global threat due to ill defined mechanisms that enable this organism to persist and replicate. Although molecular methods have revolutionized the diagnostic techniques in tuberculosis, yet a conventional simple microscopy remains the most cheap, easy and simple method for its diagnosis. The only requirement for the same is a trained eye to identify different pleomorphic forms of acid fast bacilli from the clinical specimen. We present here a case report of tubercular lumbar abscess with an unusual morphology.

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