In the struggle with tuberculosis over the centuries, one of the difficulties is the limited number of anti-TB drugs while the effects occur quite often. Although common, not all patients experience these side effects. The incidence of common side effects can range from >1% to >10%.

Ethionamide is an anti-tuberculosis drug and is used with other medicines to treat tuberculosis. Ethionamide works by stopping the growth of bacteria, and it works for bacterial infections, and not for viral infections.

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis of the ileum is a type of gastrointestinal tuberculosis, with symptoms that are easily confused with other diseases. Tuberculosis is common in people of working age, especially between the ages of 30 and 55. In addition, patients with intestinal tuberculosis often also have tuberculosis in other organs such as pulmonary tuberculosis, rarely urinary tract tuberculosis (most commonly renal tuberculosis).

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease of the whole society today, capable of spreading and endangering the life of patients. In particular, intestinal tuberculosis is a very common type of tuberculosis in developing countries, with few typical clinical symptoms and some dangerous complications caused by intestinal tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS create a major burden of infectious disease in resource-poor countries. In the patient’s body, these two pathogens, the tuberculosis bacteria and the HIV virus, promote each other to accelerate the rate of immune function decline and lead to death if left untreated.

Tuberculosis can affect all parts of the body, of which pulmonary tuberculosis is the most common form of tuberculosis and is the main source of infection for people around. Ordering a sputum culture to find tuberculosis bacteria not only supports the diagnosis of tuberculosis but also helps doctors to prescribe the most appropriate treatment regimen for each patient.