The threat of multidrug resistance: Is tuberculosis ever untreatable or uncontrollable?

Lancet

Volumn 353, Issue 9157, 1999, Pages 998-999

  Gleissberg, Virginia ^a  

^a BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 0033586369     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)01439-7     Document Type: Review

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