Concept information
Preferred term
Antitubercular Agents
Type
-
mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- 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.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Synonym(s)
- Antitubercular Agent
- Antitubercular Drug
- Antitubercular Drugs
- Anti-Tuberculosis Agent
- Anti-Tuberculosis Agents
- Anti-Tuberculosis Drug
- Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs
- Tuberculostatic Agent
- Tuberculostatic Agents
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- administration & dosage (Qualifier)
- adverse effects (Qualifier)
- agonists (Qualifier)
- analysis (Qualifier)
- antagonists & inhibitors (Qualifier)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- chemical synthesis (Qualifier)
- chemistry (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- isolation & purification (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- pharmacokinetics (Qualifier)
- pharmacology (Qualifier)
- poisoning (Qualifier)
- radiation effects (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- supply & distribution (Qualifier)
- therapeutic use (Qualifier)
- toxicity (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Agents antituberculeux
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Anti-tuberculeux
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Médicaments antituberculeux
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Tuberculostatiques
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-NCM534SW-2
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