Managing multiple and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1035-1037

  Padayatchi, Nesri ^a   Friedland, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CAPREOMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TERIZIDONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 34250626845     PISSN: 14656566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14656566.8.8.1035     Document Type: Editorial

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