Frequency and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of mycobacterial isolates from extra-pulmonary tuberculosis cases

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 328-332

  Butt, T ^a   Kazmi, S Y ^a   Ahmad, R N ^a   Mahmood, A ^a   Karamat, K A ^a   Anwar, M ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; PUS; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIOMETRY; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ETHAMBUTOL; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; LYMPH NODES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SUPPURATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0141682894     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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