Shifting Gears to Control Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
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Shifting gears to control drug-resistant tuberculosis.
TO THE EDITOR—How does the global community gain more traction in an effort to combat multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis globally? We have considered whether it would be helpful to address MDR tuberculosis as a separate epidemic. We introduced the idea because the dominant strategy globally for the past 2 decades has been based on the premise that MDR tuberculosis could be controlled by str...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu479