Classification of antituberculosis drugs: a new proposal based on the most recent evidence.

نویسندگان

  • Jose A Caminero
  • Anna Scardigli
چکیده

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) (resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin), with >480000 cases in 2013, 10% of them being affected by extensively drug-resistant (XDR)-TB (MDR-TB with additional resistance to any fluoroquinolone, and to injectable second-line drugs (SLDs) (capreomycin, kanamycin or amikacin)), continues to represent a real threat to TB control [1–4]. In some high MDR-TB burden countries, the prevalence of MDR-TB among new cases exceeds 20% and among retreatment cases, reaches almost 50% [1, 5].

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The European respiratory journal

دوره 46 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015