New anti-tuberculosis drugs and regimens: 2015 update
Over 480 000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) occur every year globally, 9% of them being affected by extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The treatment of MDR/XDR-TB is unfortunately long, toxic and expensive, and the success rate largely unsat...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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European Respiratory Society
2015
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5005131/ |