XDR-TB: Entering the post-antibiotic era?

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1185-1187

  Raviglione, Mario ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EDITORIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33750811319     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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