Activities of isoniazid alone and in combination with other drugs against Mycobacterium avium infection in beige mice

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 712-714

  Fattorini, Lanfranco ^a   Xiao, Yan ^a   Mattei, Maurizio ^a   Li, Yongjun ^a   Iona, Elisabetta ^a   Ricci, Maria Luisa ^a   Thoresen, Ove Fredrik ^a   Creti, Roberta ^a   Orefici, Graziella ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOSTASIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT M; COLONY FORMING UNIT S; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0031919228     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.3.712     Document Type: Article

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