Atlanta ? The globe-trotting tuberculosis patient said Thursday he would have canceled his wedding trip to Europe and gone into isolation if federal health officials had told him to after he was diagnosed with a dangerous form of the disease.

“There’s still this perception that I was acting irresponsibly and the CDC didn’t do anything wrong,” Andrew Speaker said in a telephone interview from a Colorado hospital, where he has been under treatment for a month.

On Tuesday, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver said recent tests showed that the Atlanta lawyer has a more treatable, multidrug-resistant strain of TB, rather than an extensively drug-resistant form.

On Thursday, Speaker accused the CDC of trying to distort the timeline to cover up the fact that he was not ordered into isolation before May 10. He insisted he had followed instructions.