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BACILLE PFEIFFER [2 records]

Record 1 2005-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
  • Immunology
DEF

The homeopathic blend of the various flu and virus strains around from the year before, potentized to arm the immune system to be ready to what is to come this coming season.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
  • Immunologie
DEF

Dilution infinitésimale du vaccin anti-grippal de l’année. La souche change donc tous les ans.

CONT

Influenzinum est le nom du nosode de l'influenza, de la grippe endémique ou épidémique à virus, quelque nom qu'on lui donne(espagnole, italienne, asiatique) ;quel que soit le virus grippal en cause-A ou A’, B ou B’-quelles que soient les associations microbiennes ou les germes de sortie trouvés dans l'expectoration ou les exsudats(streptocoque, pneumocoque, coccobacille de Pfeiffer, pneumo bacille de Friedlander, micrococcus catarrhalis).

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
  • Bacterial Diseases
DEF

A gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Haemophilus that occurs in the human respiratory tract and causes acute respiratory infections, acute conjunctivitis, and purulent meningitis.

OBS

Type b is the most common pathogenic form of the bacterium [causing infections especially among young children].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
  • Maladies bactériennes
DEF

Bacille gram-négatif, court, isolé, en paires ou parfois en courtes chaînes, responsable d’infections respiratoires, de complications de la grippe, de conjonctivites, de méningites, d’arthrites purulentes et de sinusites.

OBS

Ce germe avait initialement été rendu responsable de la grippe, d’où son nom d’influenzae, jusqu’à l’isolement du virus grippal en 1933.

Spanish

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