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[The mechanisms of the pathogenicity of bacteria in different infections]
Abstract:
The following ultrastructural formations are found in the bacteria of various infections: fibrillar and drop-like microcapsules, an increase of nucleotide size and number, micropyles. The dynamics of staphylococcus L-form formation in sepsis as well as the phenomenon of incomplete phagocytosis and endocytobiosis were studied. The latter is observed in mixed infection: dysentery bacteria lamblia, gonococci and trichomonas. These alterations indicate increased bacterial pathogenicity and seem to reflect the evolution of the bacteria adaptive mechanisms under the conditions of antibiotic therapy.
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