Treatment failure in tuberculosis
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Treatment failure in tuberculosis.
Treatment of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection with 3 months of rifampicin/isoniazid is a major part of preventive TB programmes. The effectiveness of treatment of latent TB infection can only be assessed by rates of subsequent breakdown and there are few outcome data for this combination of rifampicin/isoniazid. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to estimate the failure rate followin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00092406