Sentences with phrase «by rifampicin»

In the current study, the team found that these longer bacteria were least affected by rifampicin.

Not exact matches

Vitamin C had no activity by itself, but in two independent experiments, the combination of vitamin C with the first - line TB drugs, isoniazid and rifampicin, reduced the organ burdens faster than the two drugs without vitamin C, said first author Catherine J. Vilcheze, Ph.D..

The study followed 1,055 household contacts of 213 individuals with MDRTB infection (defined by resistance to the drugs rifampicin and isoniazid), and 2,362 household contacts of 487 individuals with drug - susceptible tuberculosis for up to three years.

Drug resistance in rifampicin and related antibiotics has occurred when their bacterial RNA polymerase enzymes mutate, Mahmud said, leaving them largely unaffected by antibiotics that work by inhibiting RNA synthesis.

The intensive treatment for pulmonary TB is a six - month regime that consists of two months of isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol, followed by four months of isoniazid and rifampicin in FDCs that are combined in one tablet, or separately as single - drug formulations.