Pyrazinamide - On the antituberculosis drug frontline

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 635-636

  Mitchison, Denis A ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRAZINOIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENOTYPE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; MICE; PYRAZINAMIDE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029999669     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0696-635     Document Type: Note

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