Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Despite the efforts made worldwide to reduce the number of cases of drug-susceptible tuberculosis, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) constitutes an important public health issue. Around 440,000 new cases of MDR-TB are estimated annually, although in 2008 only 7% of these (29,423 cases) were...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Antônio Carlos Moreira Lemos, Eliana Dias Matos
Materialtyp: Artikel
Språk:English
Publicerad: Elsevier 2013-03-01
Serie:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Länkar:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S141386701300055X