Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the United States, 1993-2007
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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the United States, 1993-2007.
CONTEXT Worldwide emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has raised global public health concern, given the limited therapy options and high mortality. OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiology of XDR-TB in the United States and to identify unique characteristics of XDR-TB cases compared with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and drug-susceptible TB cases. DESIGN, SETTING...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.300.18.2153