Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis infection and disease in children: a review of new and repurposed drugs

The World Health Organization estimates that 10 million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) occurred worldwide in 2017, of which 600,000 were rifampicin or multidrug-resistant (RR/MDR) TB. Modelling estimates suggest that 32,000 new cases of MDR-TB occur in children annually, but only a fraction of these...

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Main Authors: Julie Huynh, Ben J. Marais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-07-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2049936119864737