The granularity of Koch's bacilli and the dynamics of pulmonary tuberculosis

Abstract

The Pulmonary Tuberculosis Clinic has repeatedly sought to find out the dependence of BC morphology on the dynamics of the tubercle process, and the clinical observations of different authors were often diametrically opposed: some authors observed predominantly long BC in severe forms of TB, while others considered BC to be "evil", but in most cases BC granularity was considered to be one of the bad signs of the TB course. In order to assess the proportion of BC granularity, we processed 100 case histories of patients who were cured at the Palace of Health Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Stalingrad during the spring months of 1933; the cases are, for the most part, well and long known.

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