 Antitubercular Agents
"Antitubercular Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Drugs used in the treatment of tuberculosis. They are divided into two main classes: "first-line" agents, those with the greatest efficacy and acceptable degrees of toxicity used successfully in the great majority of cases; and "second-line" drugs used in drug-resistant cases or those in which some other patient-related condition has compromised the effectiveness of primary therapy.
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D000995
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.954.122.085.255
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| Concept/Terms |
Antitubercular Agents- Antitubercular Agents
- Agents, Antitubercular
- Antitubercular Drugs
- Drugs, Antitubercular
- Tuberculostatic Agents
- Agents, Tuberculostatic
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| 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Antitubercular Agents" by people in Profiles.
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Gan J, Manadan AM, Sequiera W, Block JA. Tuberculosis infections and tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonists. Am J Ther. 2013 Jan; 20(1):73-8.
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Hodowanec AC, Trenholme GM. When should INH prophylaxis be given to a dialysis patient with a positive tuberculin skin test but with a normal CXR? Semin Dial. 2011 Jul-Aug; 24(4):440-1.
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Sharma S, Yoder MA. New weapons in the war on tuberculosis. Am J Ther. 2011 Jul; 18(4):e101-12.
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Ekochin LH, Manadan AM, Aggarwal R, Sequeira W, Block JA. Absence of transaminase elevation during concomitant methotrexate and isoniazid therapy. J Rheumatol. 2009 Sep; 36(9):2127.
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Logan LK, Zheng XT, Dizikes GS, Tan TQ. Failure to thrive in Chicago. Lancet. 2007 Jun 23; 369(9579):2132.
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Manadan AM, Block JA, Sequeira W. Mycobacteria tuberculosis peritonitis associated with etanercept therapy. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2003 Jul-Aug; 21(4):526.
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Khoo LT, Mikawa K, Fessler RG. A surgical revisitation of Pott distemper of the spine. Spine J. 2003 Mar-Apr; 3(2):130-45.
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Sequeira W, Co H, Block JA. Osteoarticular tuberculosis: current diagnosis and treatment. Am J Ther. 2000 Nov; 7(6):393-8.
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Arvanitakis Z, Long RL, Hershfield ES, Manfreda J, Kabani A, Kunimoto D, Power C. M. tuberculosis molecular variation in CNS infection: evidence for strain-dependent neurovirulence. Neurology. 1998 Jun; 50(6):1827-32.
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Ellis LC, Benson CA, Koenig GI, Trenholme GM. Postantibiotic effect of clarithromycin alone and combined with ethambutol against Mycobacterium avium complex. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1995 Dec; 39(12):2803-6.
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