Supporting TB clinicians managing difficult cases: the ERS/WHO consilium

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 491-494

  Blasi, Francesco ^a   Dara, Masoud ^b   Van Der Werf, Marieke J ^c   Migliori, Giovanni Battista ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

AZERBAIJAN; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BELARUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ESTONIA; HUMAN; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TAJIKISTAN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EUROPE; EXTENSIVELY DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84875255319     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00196712     Document Type: Review

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