Process of acquiring drug resistance, retrospective review of records of MDR TB

Kekkaku

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 717-724

  Yoshiyama, Takashi ^a,b   Ito, Kunihiko ^a   Ogata, Hideo ^b   Mitarai, Satoshi ^a   Hoshino, Hitoshi ^a   Okumura, Masao ^b   Aman, Kumiko ^b   Aono, Akio ^b   Wada, Masako ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

^b Japan Anti Tuberculosis Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acquired drug resistance; Multidrug resistant tuberculosis; Preventable

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIFAMPIN; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 14944357573     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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