Mycobacteria: Treatment approaches and mechanisms of resistance

Journal Medical Libanais

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 248-254

  Frothingham, R ^a  

^a Lab of Mycobacterial Pathogenesis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; GENE MUTATION; LEBANON; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRIMARY PREVENTION; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0034496070     PISSN: 00239852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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