Seromycin, an Effective Treatment for Tuberculosis in Tamsk, Russia

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of cycloserine on 6 isolates of tuberculosis from Tomsk, Russia. Using the broth microdilution (BM) method, the isolates were found to be sensitive to 32 μg/ml of seromycin after 3 weeks of treatment. These results conformed to the control strain, irrespective of the amount of inoculum used. There was an indirect relationship between the amount of culture treated and the MIC of seromycin. All this show that seromycin was an effective treatment for tuberculosis in Tomsk, Russia.