Also there is some concern about efficacy of rifampicin as single drug prophylaxis in contacts where the source is proved to be excreting INH resistant bacilli. A case of probable rifampicin failure in such situation is described(3) and hence recommendation for chemophophylaxis of confirmed INH resistance vary from rimampicin alone or rifampicin with ethambutol; both regimens for 9 months(4). I...

Tuberculosis is one of the most common infections in Zambian adults and children infected with HIV. In Africa, cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions attributed to thiacetazone during treatment of tuberculosis in adults infected with HIV-I have been well documented. This study monitored adverse drug reactions during treatment for tuberculosis over an 18 month period (1 April 1990 to 31 October 19...

Isoxyl and Thiacetazone are two antitubercular prodrugs formerly used in the clinical treatment of tuberculosis. Although both prodrugs have recently been shown to kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis through the inhibition of the dehydration step of the type II fatty acid synthase pathway, their detailed mechanism of inhibition, the precise number of enzymes involved in their activation and the nat...

In vitro screening of thiacetazone derivatives indicated that two derivatives, SRI-286 and SRI-224, inhibited a panel of 25 Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) isolates at concentrations of 2 micro g/ml or lower. In mice, SRI-224 and thiacetazone had no significant activity against the MAC in livers and spleens, but treatment with SRI-286 resulted in significant reduction of bacterial loads in li...

Some new complexes of thiacetazone (Thz) and quinalizarin (Qz) with Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Zn(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) were prepared. The ligands and their metal complexes were characterized by phisco-chemical spectroscopic techniques. The spectral data suggested that the thiacetazone as a neutral bidentate ligand is coordinated with the metal ions through the N and S atoms. The ...

Treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and the discovery of effective new anti-tubercular drugs are among the most urgent priorities in health organizations all over the world. In the present study, fluorinated analogs of some of the most important anti-TB agents such as p-aminosalicylic acid (PAS), thiacetazone and pyrazinamide were synthesized and tested against TB. The fluorinated analog of thiaceta...