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Population screening for isoniazid acetylator phenotype.
Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety - 1 Jan 2000
Seifart H I, Parkin D P, Botha F J, Donald P R, Van Der Walt B J
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To establish a useful method for acetylator phenotypification and therapeutic drug monitoring of patients receiving isoniazid. METHODS: Sixty patients with uncomplicated pulmonary tuberculosis were given a 5-mg/kg oral dose of isoniazid each. Plasma concentrations of isoniazid and its metabolite, acetyl-isoniazid, were determined by HPLC analyses at various post-dose times. From the isoniazid...
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