tuberculocide tuberculocide a tuberculocide is a substance or a process which disables or destroys the spore which causes tuberculosis, mycobacterium tuberculosis. history in 1955, bergsmann studied dairin as a tuberculocide. in 1976, sachse studied peracetic acid as a tuberculocide. in 1998, wang and ding studied diterpenoids from the roots of euphorbia ebracteolata (one of the euphorbia genus) as a tuberculocide. in 2010, zhang et al. reported that euphorbia fischeriana had been used especially in asia as a tuberculocide. in 2011, nde et al. studied three oxidative disinfectants as tuberculocides.