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  • Title: Evaluation of the 3-drug combination, Rifater, versus 4-drug therapy in the ambulatory treatment of tuberculosis in Cape Town.
    Author: Macnab MF, Bohmer PD, Seager JR.
    Journal: S Afr Med J; 1994 Jun; 84(6):325-8. PubMed ID: 7740377.
    Abstract:
    The subjective impression among clinicians that the use of Rifater was causing delayed sputum conversion and increased drug resistance was tested in a prospective study. Adults in the Cape Town municipal area with a first episode of pulmonary tuberculosis were treated either with Rifater or a regimen consisting of isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol. All patients who took the treatment as prescribed (67 Rifater, 39 the 4-drug regimen) converted to a negative sputum culture by the time 90 doses had been taken. The rates of inadequate compliance and of side-effects were similar in the two groups. Drug sensitivity testing of bacteria cultured from pre-treatment sputum specimens revealed an overall primary resistance rate of 4.84% in the population studied, sufficiently low to preclude any necessity for routine pre-treatment drug sensitivity testing.
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