The organic compound known as isoniazid is most commonly used in the anti tuberculosis medicines that are used around the world including the main use of the medicine in third world countries where tuberculosis is still commonly spread among people that live in poor conditions. Isoniazid compound is used as a serum to combat the tuberculosis infection because this is the only form in which it has any positive effects against the disease.
Tuberculosis is catch by the patient when they breathe in a particular agent called tubercle bacilli which causes the subject to get strong fevers of high temperatures as well as causing breathing problems that ultimately lead to scarring in the lungs. Until the development of the serum in the 1950s tuberculosis was known to be a very deadly disease which has had outbreaks all around the world.
