1.   On the particular facts McCardie J found that the house and its contents were not free of tuberculosis bacilli and it was not fit for human habitation.

2.   The tuberculosis bacillus can be fiendishly elusive.

3.   The tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, shrugs off antibiotics that kill other bacteria.

4.   A vaccine based on proteins made by the tuberculosis bacillus is able to protect laboratory guinea pigs from TB, a leading cause of death in humans.

5.   Drug-resistant malaria is present in neighbouring countries while multi- drug resistant tuberculosis bacilli has spread worldwide.

6.   Some two billion people carry the tuberculosis bacillus.