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Is there tuberculosis treatment for 4 months?

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Dr. Rishi Kumar answered

Specializes in Anesthesiology

INH + rifapentine: The gold standard for latent (noninfectious) TB was nine months of Isoniazid (inh), but a study recently published in the new england journal of medicine showed that only three months of Rifapentine and inh was just as efficacious as the aforementioned standard.

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Answered 9/29/2020

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