Article
[Bacteriologic basis for the treatment of tuberculosis].
La Revue du praticien - 11 Mar 1990
Grosset J
Abstract excerpt
To be fully effective, short-course chemotherapy for tuberculosis should take into account the slow growth rate, high oxygen requirement and high drug-resistant mutant emergence rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as well as the type of the lesions observed and the specific activity of each antituberculous drug. Due to their unique sterilizing activities against bacilli that are not actively metabolizing,...
Topics
- Antibiotics, Antitubercular
- Bacillus
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Humans
- Mutation
- Tuberculosis