USES: This medication is used with other medications to treat active tuberculosis (TB) infection if you cannot take other drugs for TB or if you have a type of TB that cannot be treated with other drugs (drug-resistant TB). Streptomycin belongs to a class of drugs known as aminoglycoside antibiotics.
Drug-resistant TB disease is caused by TB bacteria that are resistant to the drugs normally used to treat the disease. Drug-resistant TB is transmitted in the same way as drug-susceptible TB, and it is no more infectious than drug-susceptible TB.
There are several known interactions between drugs used to treat HIV and drug-resistant TB: TB medicines for treatment of patients with DR TB. This
Antitubercular drugs, are drugs used to treat tuberculosis (TB). Classification. According to clinical utility the anti TB drugs can be divided into 2 groups.
drugs used to treat HIV and drug-resistant TB: Rifampicin: Rifampicin is used in the treatment of rifampicin-sensitive poly- and mono- resistant TB.
A second-line TB medicine (or drug) is an agent reserved for the treatment of drug-resistant TB. First-line TB medicines used to treat drug-susceptible TB ethambutol, isoniazid and pyrazinamide may also be used in MDR-TB regimens (streptomycin is now considered a second-line TB medicine and used only as a substitute for amikacin when
by World Health Organization 2024 Cited by 747A second-line TB medicine (or drug) is an agent reserved for the treatment of drug-resistant TB. First-line TB medicines used to treat drug-susceptible TB –
drugs used to treat HIV and drug-resistant TB: Rifampicin: Rifampicin is used in the treatment of rifampicin-sensitive poly- and mono- resistant TB.
Some TB germs are resistant to medicines used to treat TB disease. This means the medicine can no longer kill the TB germs. Drug-resistant TB disease is difficult and costly to treat. The most important way to prevent drug-resistant TB disease is for all people being treated for TB disease to take all TB medicine exactly as prescribed.
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