Intermittent Chemotherapy in Tuberculosis

Intermittent or daily short course chemotherapy for tuberculosis in children: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of intermittent with daily chemotherapy (both containing rifampicin) in childhood tuberculosis (age 16yrs) in achieving cure significant improvement. DESIGN Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. METHODS MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library were searched for randomized trials of antitubercular regimens containing rifampicin, in children 16 yrs or less with t...

Pulmonary tuberculosis in patient on intermittent haemodialysis.

Chemotherapy of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Many attempts have been made in the past to find chemotherapeutic agents active against the tubercle bacillus, and some agents alleged to have had such action, notably gold compounds, have had a considerable vogue. The discovery of the antibacterial action of the sulphonamides stimulated a search for compounds of related constitution having an action against the tubercle bacillus, and this resu...

Chemotherapy of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Many attempts have been made in the past to find chemotherapeutic agents active against the tubercle bacillus, and some agents alleged to have had such action, notably gold compounds, have had a considerable vogue. The discovery of the antibacterial action of the sulphonamides stimulated a search for compounds of related constitution having an action against the tubercle bacillus, and this resu...

The Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis *

Nine years ago I collaborated with Dr. Esmond R. Long and the late Dr. Lydia M. DeWitt in preparing a critical compilation of the results obtained up to that time by chemical studies of tuberculosis, published as The Chemistry of Tuberculosis. Dr. Long and I are now revising this book, which gives us an opportunity to estimate just what progress has been made in these nine years, and in what di...