thioacetazone
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Thioacetazone (INN, BAN), also known as amithiozone (USAN), is an oral antibiotic which is used in the treatment of tuberculosis. It has fallen into almost complete disuse due to toxicity and the introduction of improved anti-tuberculosis drugs like isoniazid. The drug has only weak activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is only useful in preventing resistance to more powerful drugs such as isoniazid and rifampicin. It is never used on its own to treat tuberculosis; it is used in a similar way to ethambutol.
Research
709 papers- Fluorescently labelled thioacetazone for detecting the interaction with Mycobacterium dehydratases HadAB and HadBC.Organic & biomolecular chemistry · 2022
- Tuberculosis.British medical journal · 1973
- Thioacetazone--a review.The Indian journal of chest diseases & allied sciences · 1982
- Tuberculosis--chemotherapy.British medical journal · 1972
- Further Insights into the Oxidative Pathway of Thiocarbonyl-Type Antitubercular Prodrugs: Ethionamide, Thioacetazone, and Isoxyl.Chemical research in toxicology · 2021
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Adverse effects
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