The use of rifabutin in europe for the treatment of mycobacterial infection in AIDS patients

Infection

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Dautzenberg, B ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFABUTIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EUROPE; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; CLINICAL TRIALS; EUROPE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RIFABUTIN;

EID: 0030638645     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02113518     Document Type: Article

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