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Comparison between serum and urinary sulphadimidine acetylation as predictors of isoniazid acetylator status in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.
The Indian journal of chest diseases & allied sciences - 1 Jan 2000
Singh S P, Pande J N, Khilnani G C, Kailash S
Abstract excerpt
The acetylator status of 200 pulmonary tuberculosis patients was determined by sulphadimidine (SDM) acetylation in (1) urine and (2) serum. In both estimations, distribution of the patients with regard to the acetylation rates was found to be bimodal. Based on the percent frequency distribution of acetylated SDM, the antimode for urine and serum was 65% for the former and 45% for the latter. Patients acetylating...
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