THIS report deals with 92 cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis treated with streptomycin in various amounts and over different lengths of time. In all cases the lesions were proved to be ...

Highlight of their report: streptomycin definitely can arrest tuberculosis, but it is too costly at present for practical general treatment.* At the Mayo Clinic, Dr. H. C. Hinshaw, after finding ...

His efforts to understand and cure tuberculosis coincided with the discovery of streptomycin in 1944. Streptomycin temporarily suppressed tuberculosis but was not a cure for the disease.

The first antibiotic against tuberculosis, streptomycin, was developed in the 1940s. Soon after, in the 1950s, the drug isoniazid was developed along with the group of drugs called rifamycins.

Streptomycin therapy should be terminated when toxic symptoms, organism resistant have appeared or when full treatment effect has been obtained. The total treatment period of tuberculosis is ...

Sum of the findings: isoniazid is the only drug that belongs in the same class with streptomycin for effectiveness against tuberculosis. In most respects it is as good as streptomycin; in some ...

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