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J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1977;20(2):83-86. Published online February 28, 1977.

Recent Trend in Chemotherapy for Pulmonary Tyberculosis

Won Young Lee

¹Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea.

Abstract

Numerous problems has not been solved in the field of pulmonary tuberculosis, especially in chemotherapy. There has been many turning points in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis such as; introduction of streptomycin, combination therapy, isoniazid single therapy, intermittent chemotherapy, and recent short-term chemotherapy. It is very important to know about individual drugs for the better chemotherapy. So a review has been made referring many literatures in pharmacologic properties of them. Also single INH therapy, double chemotherapy and triple chemotherapy have be described.

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