 Antitubercular Agents
"Antitubercular Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Drugs used in the treatment of tuberculosis. They are divided into two main classes: "first-line" agents, those with the greatest efficacy and acceptable degrees of toxicity used successfully in the great majority of cases; and "second-line" drugs used in drug-resistant cases or those in which some other patient-related condition has compromised the effectiveness of primary therapy.
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D000995
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.954.122.085.255
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| Concept/Terms |
Antitubercular Agents- Antitubercular Agents
- Agents, Antitubercular
- Antitubercular Drugs
- Drugs, Antitubercular
- Tuberculostatic Agents
- Agents, Tuberculostatic
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| 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Antitubercular Agents" by people in Profiles.
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Kirar RS, Uniyal R, Garg RK, Verma R, Malhotra HS, Sharma PK, Kumar N, Pandey S, Rizvi I, Jain A. Occurrence and determinants of seizures and their impact on tuberculous meningitis: a prospective evaluation. Acta Neurol Belg. 2024 Jun; 124(3):821-829.
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Stancil SL, Mirzayev F, Abdel-Rahman SM. Profiling Pretomanid as a Therapeutic Option for TB Infection: Evidence to Date. Drug Des Devel Ther. 2021; 15:2815-2830.
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Kavookjian H, Jones JW, Shah S, Escobar H, Swanson D, Nicklaus P. Endobronchial Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacterium Infection Presenting in a Healthy Child. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2018 Oct; 127(10):726-730.
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Gupta A, Mathad JS, Abdel-Rahman SM, Albano JD, Botgros R, Brown V, Browning RS, Dawson L, Dooley KE, Gnanashanmugam D, Grinsztejn B, Hernandez-Diaz S, Jean-Philippe P, Kim P, Lyerly AD, Mirochnick M, Mofenson LM, Montepiedra G, Piper J, Sahin L, Savic R, Smith B, Spiegel H, Swaminathan S, Watts DH, White A. Toward Earlier Inclusion of Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Tuberculosis Drug Trials: Consensus Statements From an International Expert Panel. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Mar 15; 62(6):761-769.
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Wilson D, Goggin K, Williams K, Gerkovich MM, Gqaleni N, Syce J, Bartman P, Johnson Q, Folk WR. Consumption of Sutherlandia frutescens by HIV-Seropositive South African Adults: An Adaptive Double-Blind Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial. PLoS One. 2015; 10(7):e0128522.
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McIlleron H, Abdel-Rahman S, Dave JA, Blockman M, Owen A. Special populations and pharmacogenetic issues in tuberculosis drug development and clinical research. J Infect Dis. 2015 Jun 15; 211 Suppl 3:S115-25.
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Li F, Lu J, Cheng J, Wang L, Matsubara T, Csanaky IL, Klaassen CD, Gonzalez FJ, Ma X. Human PXR modulates hepatotoxicity associated with rifampicin and isoniazid co-therapy. Nat Med. 2013 Apr; 19(4):418-20.
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Dixit P, Singh U, Sharma P, Jain A. Evaluation of nitrate reduction assay, resazurin microtiter assay and microscopic observation drug susceptibility assay for first line antitubercular drug susceptibility testing of clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis. J Microbiol Methods. 2012 Jan; 88(1):122-6.
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Myers AL, Colombo J, Jackson MA, Harrison CJ, Roberts CR. Tuberculous colitis mimicking Crohn disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2007 Nov; 45(5):607-10.
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Reith K, Keung A, Toren PC, Cheng L, Eller MG, Weir SJ. Disposition and metabolism of 14C-rifapentine in healthy volunteers. Drug Metab Dispos. 1998 Aug; 26(8):732-8.
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