http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/tb/factsheets/activekhmer.pdf
Minnesota Department of Health
Your health-care provider has prescribed medicine to kill the tuberculosis (TB) germs in your body. TB disease can be cured by taking medicine to kill the TB germs, but TB germs are strong. You need to take the medicine for many months to be sure all of the TB germs are dead.