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Determination of the acetylator phenotype in Moroccan tuberculosis patients using isoniazid as metabolic probe.
International journal of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Dec 2002
Aït Moussa L, Khassouani C E, Hüe B, Jana M, Bégaud B, Soulaymani R
Abstract excerpt
A large interindividual variability in drug acetylation is associated with genetic polymorphism of the polymorphic Type 2 N-acetyltransferase (NAT2), and an important interethnic difference has been frequently observed. However, few data on this polymorphism in the Moroccan population are available. In the present study the acetylator phenotype in 89 Moroccan patients with tuberculosis has been determined using...
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