Multidrug resistant tuberculosis: Practical lessons for HIV units

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 313-314

  Easterbrook, Philippa ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EUROPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029951771     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.72.5.313     Document Type: Editorial

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