(from TezukaOsamu.net )

"Tuberculosis" depicts the adventures of Kenichi and his uncle, Mr. Mustachio, inside a boy's body. After being injected with a drug called ZX that was discovered by Mustachio, Kenichi and his uncle have shrunk and become very small.

When they enter the body of a boy and reach his lung, they find that tubercle bacilli (bacteria) are opening a big hole in the boy's lung. Tubercle bacilli send Mode (a tubercle bacillus), a daughter of Dr. Iyoa (also a tubercle bacillus), to Kenichi and Mustachio to learn the human language.

The two make friends with Mode, but a war breaks out between the tubercle bacilli and the commandos in the boy's brain, and the two become involved in the war.

Published as a tankoban, Tuberculose is an early work of Tezuka's that has not been collected in any edition of the complete works, nor reprinted along with others in the Fukkan Early Masterpiece Selection boxsets.

A second attempt at the work was done by Tezuka in the form of Monsters on the 38th Parallel.