Ethambutol dihydrochloride it acts as a tuberculostatic antibacterial agent. It is used to treat tuberculosis in combination with other antibiotics to reduce the development of drug resistance. It has been used to study multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in highest-incidence-rate.

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