rifampicin

The other half will receive the drug rifampin (also known as rifampicin) for four months.

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Patients infected with strains of TB that are resistant to (at least) the two most powerful first-line antibiotics used to treat TB, namely rifampicin and isoniazid, are said to have multidrug-resistant TB, or MDR-TB

Doctors Without Borders 2009

This antibiotic also acts against the cell membrane and the cell wall, and resistance emergence to this compound may be lower than other antibiotics which target a single enzyme, such as rifampicin or mupirocin

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yanmin Hu et al. 2010

Bacterial RNA polymerase is a proven target for antibiotics such as rifampicin, against which many bacteria have become resistant.

Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

Bacterial RNA polymerase is a proven target for antibiotics such as rifampicin, against which many bacteria have become resistant.

Health News from Medical News Today 2008

[24], where isoniazid (kills multiplying bacteria) and pyrazinamide (kills non-multiplying or persistent organisms), are used side by side, together with other antibiotics such as rifampicin and ethambutol.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yanmin Hu et al. 2010

Caught early enough, leprosy can be cured today with the antibiotics dapsone, rifampicin, and clofazimine.

Matt Bivens: Cure Millions of Leprosy -- or Just Give Hank Paulson a Tax Break? 2009

MDR-TB is resistant to at least two of the best anti-TB drugs, isoniazid and rifampicin.

Addressing HIV and IDU issues vital for TB programmes 2008

Another could be a drug interaction, caused by rifampicin, when the patient started to receive early doses of the antiretroviral.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

The antibiotic rifampicin reduces concentrations in the blood of nevirapine, a low-cost agent that is part of the frontline therapy against HIV in poor countries, especially Africa.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008