title: [Prevention of resistance to rifampicin by pyrazinamide in experimental tuberculosis in the mouse].
abstract: The capacity of Pyrazinamide (PZA) to prevent the selection of Rifampicin (RMP) resistant mutants was tested by the intravenous innoculation of 160 mice with 2 X 10(6) c.f.u. of M. tuberculosis, and two weeks later, the treatment of the mice either with 10 mg/kg/day RMP alone or with RMP + PZA 150 mg/kg/day. After three months of treatment, lungs and spleen were culture positive in respectively 95% and 90% of the mice treated with RMP alone and in 37% and 24% of the mice treated by RMP + PZA (p less than 10(-5). The strains isolated from lungs and spleen were resistant to Rifampicin in respectively 87% and 75% of the mice treated with RMP alone and in none of those treated with RMP + PZA.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology; D051379:Mice; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011718:Pyrazinamide / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D012293:Rifampin / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000494:pharmacology; D013154:Spleen / Q000382:microbiology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D011718:Pyrazinamide; D012293:Rifampin
vernacular_title: Prévention de la résistance à la rifampicine par le pyrazinamide dans la tuberculose expérimentale de la souris.