Novel Treatments for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
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Novel diagnostics and therapeutics for drug-resistant tuberculosis.
INTRODUCTION Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. This is at least partly due to late diagnosis and ineffective treatment of drug-resistant status. SOURCES OF DATA Selective search of the literature on DR-TB supplemented by recent guidelines from the World Health Organization. AREAS OF AGREEMENT Better and more rapid diagnosis of DR-TB by...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine Insights: Therapeutics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1179-559X,1179-559X
DOI: 10.4137/cmt.s18560