The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) strains, i.e. strains resistant at least to isoniazid (INH) and rifampin (RMP), the two most powerful first-line drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB), represents a worldwide health care problem. Patients with MDR strains should receive therapy based on individual drug susceptibility testing (DST) 1 including residual first-line (streptomycin, SM; ethambutol, EMB; and pyrazinamide, PZA) and second-line (ofloxacin, kanamycin, capreomycin, ethionamide, p-aminosalicylic acid, cycloserine) anti-TB drugs.

Pardini M., Varaine F., Hewison C., Iona E., Pataracchia M., Orefici G., et al. (2007). Pyrazinamide resistance in multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated in Abkhazia. JOURNAL OF CHEMOTHERAPY, 19(1), 106-107 [10.1179/joc.2007.19.1.106].

Pyrazinamide resistance in multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated in Abkhazia

Oggioni M. R.;
2007

Abstract

The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) strains, i.e. strains resistant at least to isoniazid (INH) and rifampin (RMP), the two most powerful first-line drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB), represents a worldwide health care problem. Patients with MDR strains should receive therapy based on individual drug susceptibility testing (DST) 1 including residual first-line (streptomycin, SM; ethambutol, EMB; and pyrazinamide, PZA) and second-line (ofloxacin, kanamycin, capreomycin, ethionamide, p-aminosalicylic acid, cycloserine) anti-TB drugs.
2007
Pardini M., Varaine F., Hewison C., Iona E., Pataracchia M., Orefici G., et al. (2007). Pyrazinamide resistance in multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated in Abkhazia. JOURNAL OF CHEMOTHERAPY, 19(1), 106-107 [10.1179/joc.2007.19.1.106].
Pardini M.; Varaine F.; Hewison C.; Iona E.; Pataracchia M.; Orefici G.; Fattorini L.; Oggioni M.R.; Meacci F.; D'Amato V.; Andrew P.W.; Barer M.; Yes...espandi
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