Global Problem of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Taiwan
To the Editor: Global surveillance of drug resistance has shown that a substantial proportion of tuberculosis (TB) patients are infected with drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains (1). Earlier hospital-based surveys have been undertaken in Taiwan, but these lacked systematic sampling and testing methods, which made interpreting results difficult. The combined treatment efficiency an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/s0195941700005440