Peripheral blood lymphocytes were electron microscopically studied in patients with disseminated drug-sensitive and drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis before and during specific antituberculous chemotherapy. There was a tendency for an increase in the count of lymphocytes with membranous morphostructural changes during the therapy, which was more clearly defined in the drug-resistant type of the infectious process. It is suggested that antituberculous drugs have a damaging effect on the membrane of immunocompetent blood cells.
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