Principles for designing future regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

• Main Authors: Grania Brigden (Author), Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa (Author), Philipp du Cros (Author), Francis Varaine (Author), Jennifer Hughes (Author), Michael Rich (Author), C Robert Horsburgh Jr (Author), Carole D Mitnick (Author), Eric Nuermberger (Author), Helen McIlleron (Author), Patrick PJ Phillips (Author), Manica Balasegaram (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Fewer than 20% of patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis are receiving treatment and there is an urgent need to scale up treatment programmes. One of the biggest barriers to scale-up is the treatment regimen, which is lengthy, complex, ineffective, poorly tolerated and expensive. For t...