Laboratory aspects of intermittent drug therapy
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Laboratory aspects of intermittent drug therapy.
The drug-parasite relationships for isoniazid and rifampicin have been investigated, using cultures of M. tuberculosis and infected guinea-pigs. It is remarkable that there appear to be two entirely different mechanisms involved in intermittent chemotherapy with isoniazid and rifampicin. With isoniazid, any escape from the influence of the drug leads to diminished efficacy. On the other hand, w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.47.553.737