A survey of prescribing pattern for osteoarticular tuberculosis: Orthopaedic surgeons' and infectious disease experts' perspective

Indian Journal of Tuberculosis

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 201-205

  Agarwal, Anil ^a,b   Arora, Anil ^a   Kumar, Sudhir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b CNBC   (India)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Ethambutol; Isoniazid; Pyrazinamide; Rifampicin; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; ETHAMBUTOL; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; ISONIAZID; OFLOXACIN; ORTHOPEDICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSIS, OSTEOARTICULAR;

EID: 76149130725     PISSN: 00195707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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