Rising challenge of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in China: a predictive study using Markov modeling

• Glavni autori: Bing-Ying Li (Autor), Wen-Pei Shi (Autor), Chang-Ming Zhou (Autor), Qi Zhao (Autor), Vinod K Diwan (Autor), Xu-Bin Zheng (Autor), Yang Li (Autor), Sven Hoffner (Autor), Biao Xu (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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Abstract Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is on the rise in China. This study used a dynamic Markov model to predict the longitudinal trends of MDR-TB in China by 2050 and to assess the effects of alternative control measures. Methods Eight states of tuberculosis transmission wer...