Table 2.

Overall characteristics of the participants originating lung samples.

Patient	Gender	Lesion localizationa	Lesion size (mm)	TB symptoms	Drug sensitivity profileb
1	Male	RUL	21, 30	Yes	DS
2	Male	RUL	35	Yes	DS
3	Female	LLL	30	No	MDR
4	Female	LLL	30	No	DS
5	Female	RUL	30	No	DS
6	Female	RLL	42	No	MDR
7	Male	RUL	30, 21	No	MDR
8	Female	LUL	40	No	DS
9	Male	LUL	38	No	MDR
10	Male	LUL	29	No	MDR

All patients were antibiotic-treated before surgery. Highlighted in grey are the patients represented in Fig. 5.

RUL right upper lobe, LLL left lower lobe, RLL right lower lobe, LUL left upper lobe, DS drug sensitive, MDR multi-drug resistant.