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Page 1776 1 If you have a positive test, it indicates 2 either you have been infected in the past with micro3 bacterial tuberculosis, or you are infected at the 4 present. 5 What is done, X-rays are taken of the lungs 6 to indicate if there is any radio evidence of 7 tuberculosis, and most people who have a positive PPD, 8 depending on their age or clinical situation, would be 9 treated with two antibiotics, one Isoniazid and one 10 Rifampin 11 And in fact, Mr. Grewe was treated with 12 those antibiotics, and another one called 13 Ciprofloxacin for a while when they determined he had 14 a positive PPD. But all of the cultures taken of his 15 pleural fluid that developed around his left lung were 16 negative for microbacterial tuberculosis and the 17 smears never showed this. 18 Q Did that finding have any effect on the 19 cause of his mesothelioma? 20 A No. 21 Q You noted Mr. Grewe, it was noted in his