Preventive chemotherapy of tuberculosis in Cornell model mice with combinations of rifampin, isoniazid, and pyrazinamide

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 552-555

  Dhillon, Jasvir ^a   Dickinson, Jean M ^a   Sole, Kath ^a   Mitchison, Denis A ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROCORTISONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029979402     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.3.552     Document Type: Article

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