Pre-Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
National Cancer Institute
Definitions · 2020-02
Abstract
A strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is characterized by resistance to isoniazid, rifampin, and one of the following: a) any of the fluoroquinolone antibiotics or b) one or more of three injectable drugs (kanamycin, capreomycin, amikacin).
MeSH terms
- Capreomycin
- Kanamycin
- Amikacin
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Isoniazid
- Microbiology
- Tuberculosis
- Antibiotics
- Medicine
- Virology
- Drug resistance