Chemotherapy for pulmonary tuberculosis. A short-course regimen and its rationale

Dall, L.

Postgraduate Medicine 74(3): 73

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0032-5481
PMID: 6889212
Document Number: 212056
After years of declining incidence, pulmonary tuberculosis is increasing, owing in part to the influx of Asian refugees. An understanding of the tubercle bacillus and a knowledge of chemotherapy enable the physician to give adequate treatment. Short-course chemotherapy has been found to be 99% effective in clinical trials, leading the American Thoracic Society to recommend use of this mode of treatment.

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