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Antitubercular Agents

"Antitubercular Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Drugs used in the treatment of tuberculosis. They are divided into two main classes: "first-line" agents, those with the greatest efficacy and acceptable degrees of toxicity used successfully in the great majority of cases; and "second-line" drugs used in drug-resistant cases or those in which some other patient-related condition has compromised the effectiveness of primary therapy.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Antitubercular Agents" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Antitubercular Agents" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 802 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 57 publications in 2012 and 2017
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