treatment of the ultrasound to selectively destroy infected erythrocytes and or the plasmodium parasites in the patient 39 s blood either in vivo or ex vivo prophetic removal of macrophages and tubercles infected with mycobacterium tubercolosis a biopsy of an area in the lung of a patient containing tubercles and macrophages infected with m tubercolosis is taken the biopsy is treated with ultrasound applied at a range of frequencies and intensities to determine conditions necessary to selectively destroy or induce apoptosis in the infected marcophages the tubercles and or the m tubercolosis bacterial cells the lungs of the patient are then treated with ultrasound time of exposure may range from three to sixty minutes daily for up to 20 days at the end of the treatment the patients are tested to determine the reduction in the size and or number of tubercles present in the lungs of the patient prophetic removal of alginates caused by pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis an alginate sample from the lungs of the patient is treated with ultrasound applied at a range of frequencies and intensities to determine conditions necessary to selectively destroy or break down the alginate the lungs of the patient are then treated.