Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
National Cancer Institute
Definitions · 2020-02
Abstract
A strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is resistant to all of the following: isoniazid, rifampin, any of the fluoroquinolone antibiotics, and at least one of three injectable drugs (kanamycin, capreomycin, amikacin).
MeSH terms
- Capreomycin
- Kanamycin
- Amikacin
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Isoniazid
- Tuberculosis
- Microbiology
- Antibiotics
- Medicine
- Virology
- Drug
- Ethambutol