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Activities of Isoniazid Alone and in Combination with Other Drugs against Mycobacterium avium Infection in Beige Mice
Author(s) -
Lanfranco Fattorini,
Xiao Yan,
Maurizio Mattei,
Yongjun Li,
Elisabetta Iona,
Maria Luisa Ricci,
Ove Fredrik Thoresen,
Roberta Creti,
Graziella Orefici
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07
H-Index - 259
eISSN - 1070-6283
pISSN - 0066-4804
DOI - 10.1128/aac.42.3.712
Subject(s) - isoniazid , amikacin , clarithromycin , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , pharmacology , antibacterial agent , mycobacterium , antibiotics , biology , tuberculosis , pathology
Monotherapy with isoniazid or amikacin or clarithromycin or combinations of two of these drugs showed nil to modest therapeutic activity in beige mice infected with Mycobacterium avium. However, the combination of all three, isoniazid-amikacin-clarithromycin, markedly reduced CFUs in both spleens and lungs after 91 days of infection.

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