The principles of drug therapy for the treatment of tuberculosis ...

[Capo]

The principles of drug therapy for the treatment of tuberculosis include:
 
  1. Patients are treated with a drug to which M. tuberculosis is sensitive.
  2. Drugs need to be taken on a regular basis for a sufficient amount of time.
  3. Treatment continues until the patient's purified protein derivative is negative.
  4. All of the above

Question 2

Kaleb has extensively resistant tuberculosis (TB). Treatment for extensively resistant TB would include:
 
  1. INH, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for at least 12 months
  2. INH, ethambutol, kanamycin, and rifampin
  3. Treatment with at least two drugs to which the TB is susceptible
  4. Levofloxacin

[tsternbergh47]

Answer to Question 1

2

Answer to Question 2

3

[Capo]

TYSM

[kswal303]

Excellent