PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bankhead, Charles
ED  - Dorman, Susan E.
TI  - Evaluation of a Rifapentine-Containing Regimen for Intensive Phase Treatment of Pulmonary TB
DP  - 2011 Sep 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 8--9
VI  - 11
IP  - 4
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/4/8.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/4/8.full
AB  - Patients with sputum-positive tuberculosis had similar negative culture rates after 8 weeks of treatment with rifapentine or rifampin, according to results of the TBTC Study 29 [NCT00694629]. By solid media analysis, 91.4% of the rifapentine group and 89.1% of the rifampin group had negative cultures. By liquid media, the negative-culture rates were 74.6% with rifapentine and 70.1% with rifampin.