[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.