isoniazid
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of isoniazid
First recorded in 1950–55; short for isonicotinic acid hydrazide
Example Sentences
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Apolisi, together with a physician colleague, ensures that children in close contact with her TB patients take the daily preventive medication isoniazid for at least six months, as recommended by the WHO.
From Scientific American ● May 19, 2022
Instead of subjecting them all to a recommended prevention strategy—a 9-month course of the drug isoniazid—they treated half with the 9-month course and half with a monthlong combination of isoniazid and rifapentine.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 5, 2018
Decades later, differences in the metabolism of isoniazid were shown to be caused by inherited variants in the NAT2 gene, which encodes the N-acetyltransferase 2 enzyme11, 12.
From Nature ● Oct. 13, 2015
Notably, since 2005, there have been major disruptions in the supply of the TB drug isoniazid, as well as tuberculin, which is used to diagnose TB infection.
From Washington Post
Finally, with the development of such drugs as streptomycin and isoniazid in the 1940s and 1950s, tuberculosis seemed on the way to being vanquished.
From Time Magazine Archive
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