3.2.2. Short, Simple and Patient-Friendly Treatment New patients with drug-susceptible TB are treated with a standardised regimen of isoniazid and rifampicin for 6 months, supplemented with pyrazinamide and ethambutol for the first 2 months [38]. Attempts to shorten the treatment to 4 months by...
2.2. Historically Successful Social Approaches to Tuberculosis Elimination Before streptomycin was discovered in 1944 and made widely available by the late 1940s, and prior to the advent of pyrazinamide and isoniazid in the early 1950s, social interventions that improved nutrition, housing conditions, ...