Why is pyrazinamide prescribed to a patient who is sensitve to isoniazide?

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25 Aug 2010

Pyrazinamide is also effective in treating tuberculosis (assuming that TB is what is being treated)
It is an alternative to isoniazid.
http://www.drugs.com/mtm/pyrazinamide.html

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