Effective in treating or preventing tuberculosis and its complications.
From anti- (against) + tuberculo- (relating to tuberculosis) + -tic (relating to). This is a variant medical term combining multiple morphemes to describe TB treatments.
The development of antituberculotic drug combinations was a triumph of medical chemistry—doctors discovered that using multiple drugs together prevented the bacteria from developing resistance.
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