Clinical Trial
Rifampicin in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis
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Clinical Trial
Rifampicin in the treatment of tuberculous meningitis
J Trop Med Hyg.
1978 Dec.
Abstract
Seventy-one patients diagnosed to have tuberculous meningitis were treated with isoniazid, streptomycin plus either rifampicin (36 patients or ethambutol (35 patients). Results of therapy were identical in both treatment-groups (approximately 50 per cent mortality). Rifampicin appears to be as effective as ethambutol in the treatment of this infection.
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