Publications by authors named "Timosca S"

Some aspects were analyzed, of drug resistance of primary and secondary type in mycobacteria strains from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in a district area, between 1975 and 1979. The results were compared with those obtained in a similar study performed in 1971--1974. While the primary resistance has persisted at an approximately similar level under the aspects of frequency and incidence in the two periods (11% and 13,6%, and 4,0-- and 4,5% respectively), the secondary resistance has marked a significant decrease (36% and 12,3 per 100 000 inhabitants in 1979).

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The authors make an analysis of the modalities for the integration of the bacteriological examinations for M. tuberculosis in 3 sanitary units in the city of Jassy. In view of detecting pulmonary tuberculosis, although an improvement was noted in the activity of integration, an intensification is necessary of the culture examination in the present stage of the tuberculous endemia.

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The authors have studied the value of culture media based on pyruvic acid (the Dixon medium and an original medium called P.T.) in the isolation of mycobacteria from sputum, as compared with the Löwenstein-Jensen medium.

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A study was made of the incidence and nature of bacteremia occuring after extractions in a group of 189 patients hospitalised in the maxillo-facial surfery department of Iassy. The figure of 65.5% positive blood cultures demonstrates the particular role of dental extraction in the pathogenesis of bacterial endocarditis.

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