Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in patients without hiv infection

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 333, Issue 14, 1995, Pages 907-912

  Telzak, Edward E ^a   Sepkowitz, Kent ^a   Alpert, Peter ^a   Mannheimer, Sharon ^a   Medard, Franz ^a   el Sadr, Wafaa ^a   Blum, Steve ^a   Gagliardi, A ^a   Salomon, Nadim ^a   Turett, Glenn ^a  

^a North Central Bronx Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEW YORK CITY; PNEUMONECTOMY; QUINOLONES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 0029099847     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199510053331404     Document Type: Article

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