Controlling multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and access to expensive drugs: a rational framework

• Główni autorzy: Pablos-Méndez Ariel (Autor), Gowda Deepthiman K. (Autor), Frieden Thomas R. (Autor)
• Format: Książka
• Wydane: The World Health Organization, 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Hasła przedmiotowe: article
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The emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), i.e. involving resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, could threaten the control of TB globally. Controversy has emerged about the best way of confronting MDR-TB in settings with very limited resources. In 1999, the Wor...