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Mycobacteria

Treatment with oxygen at high dosage is effective against mycobacteria. One of the pioneers used hyperbaric oxygen therapy successfully for leprosy in Brazil in the 1930's. Sheldon Gottlieb confirmed the effects on the mycobacterium in vitro in the 1960's but I do not have the references to hand. Oxygen is the primary antibiotic the body uses against infection. (Ref) I would advise you to have treatment in a hyperbaric center.

Philip James MD
Wolfson Hyperbaric Medicine Unit
University of Dundee
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