[Achievement of sputum culture negative conversion by minocycline in a case with extensively drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis].

A 33-year male was readmitted to our hospital for the treatment of multi-drug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in February 1993. Six years after the treatment, the left pleuropneumonectomy was done because of the enlargement of cavitary lesions with formation of fluid. Four years after the operation, M.

[Exhaled breath-generated aerosols of mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis during normal breathing].

Objective: It has been understood that cough-generated aerosols act as an important vector for the spread of pulmonary tuberculosis. Humans commonly exhale aerosols during the normal respiration process that contain small droplets of the airway lining fluid. We aimed to determine whether aerosols exhaled by active pulmonary tuberculosis (AP-TB) patients may contain droplets with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M-TB) during normal breathing.