Pulmonary tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium microti: a study of six recent cases in France.

Human tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium microti is rare, but its prevalence and clinical significance may have been underestimated. To the best of our knowledge, 21 cases have been reported in the literature in the last decade. We report six recent pulmonary cases caused by M.

[Assay of proteins in urine and cerebrospinal fluid by centrifugal analysis. Comparison of 3 methods].

The study consists in adapting three methods allowing estimation of proteins in cerebrospinal fluid and urine on a centrifugal analyser. Colorimetric technic with coomassie blue and turbidimetric technics with trichloracetic and sulfosalicylic acids are compared by statistic methods.