Significance of the acetylator phenotype and initial oral/intravenous rifampicin administration in the treatment of tuberculosis

Loos, U.; Musch, E.; Schwabe, H.K.

Pneumologie 44(Suppl 1): 488-489

1990


ISSN/ISBN: 0934-8387
PMID: 2367445
Document Number: 349681
In a pilot study involving 62 patients with open pulmonary tuberculosis, we established that slow acetyators and patients receiving intravenous rifampicin treatment showed a tendency towards a more rapid negativisation of the sputum culture than did fast acetyators (lower levels of isoniazid) or patients receiving oral rifampicin therapy (decreasing bioavailability of the rifampicin during treatment).

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