Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
MUTATION RESEARCH-ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGENESIS AND RELATED SUBJECTS, cilt.334, sa.2, ss.175-183, 1995 (SCI-Expanded)
Cytogenetic analyses were carried out in lymphocytes of 15 untreated tuberculosis (tb) patients and 15 other tb patients who had received combined tuberculostatic chemotherapy HRZ (isoniazid + rifampicin + pyrazinamide) for 2 months. The frequency of chromosomal aberrations and sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) did not show any statistically significant differences in the patients before treatment and after exposure to combined HRZ therapy as compared to controls (p > 0.05). However, we observed that the mitotic index was significantly decreased in both groups (p < 0.05). Based on the results of the present study, we believe there is no indication for a chromosome damaging effect of HRZ and their metabolites in human lymphocytes in vivo after treatment of tuberculosis patients with optimum doses.