Terms Related to Cord Factor

• Central Nervous System Tuberculosis

  Tuberculosis of the brain, spinal cord, or meninges (TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL), most often caused by MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS and rarely by MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS. The infection may be ...

• Tuberculosis

  Any of the infectious diseases of man and other animals caused by species of MYCOBACTERIUM.

• Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  A species of gram-positive, aerobic bacteria that produces tuberculosis in man, other primates, dogs, and some animals which have contact with man. Growth tends to ...

• Mycobacterium bovis

  The bovine variety of the tubercle bacillus. It is called also Mycobacterium tuberculosis var. bovis.

• Mycobacterium scrofulaceum

  A non-tuberculous mycobacterium causing cervical lymphadenitis in children. It very rarely causes pulmonary disease, and is believed to be non-pathogenic in animals.

• Bovine Tuberculosis

  An infection of cattle caused by MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS. It is transmissible to man and other animals.

• Atypical Mycobacterium

  So-called atypical species of the genus MYCOBACTERIUM. They are also called tuberculoid bacilli, i.e.: M. buruli (see M. ULCERANS), M. CHELONAE, M. duvalii, M. flavescens, ...