Acid-fast Bacilli
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I remember reading a story about Saddam Hussein and he would make prisoners with tuberculosis spit in the mouths of other prisoners to give it to them also.
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I didn't realise they no longer vaccinate against TB. When I was a kid, I think everybody got the BCG.
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This thread reminds me - prior to transplant I had rare NTM (non-tubercular mycobacteria) colonization, called Mycobacterium Kansasii (Gram positive and acid fast, FWIW).
And another NTM called mycobacterium avium complex which is far more common.
I think medicine has twice saved my life (at least), the transplant itself and the trio of antibiotics I took (for a couple of years) which kept the two NTM infections at low enough levels to survive. It never eliminated them though, they were incinerated with my old lungs. I had to conitinue the antibiotics prophylactically for a few months to prevent colonization of the new set.
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