To treat or not to treat: the case of tuberculosis
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To treat or not to treat: the case of tuberculosis.
Incomplete treatment of patients with infectious tuberculosis (TB) may not only lead to relapse but also to the development of antibiotic resistant TB-one of the most serious health problems facing society today. In this article, we formulate one-strain and two-strain TB models to determine possible mechanisms that may allow for the survival and spread of naturally resistant strains of TB as we...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Mathematical Biology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0303-6812,1432-1416
DOI: 10.1007/s002850050069