Situacao atual da quimioterapia contra a tuberculose

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1999-12-01

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Suva, Márcia Da [UNESP]
Ferreira, Elizabeth Igné [UNESP]

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Actions to overcome a disease are dependant, essentially, on what is known about it. Procedures followed in the past were sometimes bizarre, but justified because of how little was known about the disease. The tuberculosis prechemotherapeutic age was somber due to the high levels of fatalities and morbidity. With the arrival of the chemotherapeutic treatment its prognosis has changed. Tuberculosis declined in the 50's and stabilized in the 80's. Nevertheless, it is back increasing alarming its numbers more than ever; probably because of some factors, among them, the public health system lack of attention and the government's policies, increasing in the migration to and from the endemic areas, development of drug multi-resistant cepa and also to the HIV infection. An universal antimycobacteria chemotherapy treatment is not accepted, maybe because of the number of drugs that are available. Modern chemotherapy, however, has an attack and a maintenance phases with the aim to eliminate the bacillus of fast and slow multiplication, respectively. The treatment period is long, when compared with other infectious diseases, that leads to the lack of compliance. In spite of the available resources in the fight against tuberculosis they seem insufficient to restrain the disease. This has forced the search for new chemotherapy alternatives to avoid strong come back of tuberculosis to the point of being called the 'white plague' well into the 21'st century.

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capreomycin, cycloserine, ethambutol, ethionamide, isoniazid, kanamycin, pyrazinamide, rifampicin, streptomycin, tuberculostatic agent, antibiotic resistance, drug choice, drug hypersensitivity, drug safety, geographic distribution, hepatitis, human, hyperuricemia, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, nephrotoxicity, neurotoxicity, orthostatic hypotension, ototoxicity, prevalence, rash, seizure, tuberculosis

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Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Farmaceuticas/Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, v. 35, n. 1, p. 17-30, 1999.