Tuberculosis Therapy
Moxifloxacin May Make Effective Isoniazid Supplement
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 11th, 2001
Nacer Lounis and colleagues at the Faculte de Medecine Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, and the nonprofit Global Alliance for TB Drug Development in New York City evaluated the efficacy of moxifloxacin in mice.
The broad-spectrum antibiotic appeared to enhance the effectiveness of isoniazid, they reported.
The researchers examined mice infected with 1.6 x 107/cfu of Mycobacterium...
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