"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.
Descriptor ID |
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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2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Antitubercular Agents" by people in Profiles.
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Tuberculosis in Older Adults. Clin Geriatr Med. 2016 08; 32(3):479-91.
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Langerhans cell histiocytosis masquerading as tuberculosis: a diagnostic dilemma resulting in inappropriate anti-tubercular therapy. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 Jul; 53(1):111-3.
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Tuberculosis and aging: a global health problem. Clin Infect Dis. 2001 Oct 01; 33(7):1034-9.
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Tuberculosis in the elderly. Z Gerontol Geriatr. 2000 Oct; 33(5):374-80.