From multidrug- to extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: upward trends as seen from a 15-year nationwide study.

<h4>Background</h4>Emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) represents an enormous challenge to Public Health globally.<h4>Methods</h4>Progression towards XDR-TB was investigated in Belgium, a country with a typically low TB incidence, by analyzing the ma...

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Main Authors: Karolien Stoffels, Caroline Allix-Béguec, Guido Groenen, Maryse Wanlin, Dirk Berkvens, Vanessa Mathys, Philip Supply, Maryse Fauville-Dufaux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23671662/pdf/?tool=EBI