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Are Survey-Based Estimates of the Burden of Drug Resistant TB Too Low? Insight from a Simulation Study

BACKGROUND: The emergence of tuberculosis resistant to multiple first- and second-line antibiotics poses challenges to a global control strategy that relies on standard drug treatment regimens. Highly drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been implicated in outbreaks and have bee...

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Autores principales: Cohen, Ted, Colijn, Caroline, Finklea, Bryson, Wright, Abigail, Zignol, Matteo, Pym, Alexander, Murray, Megan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2408555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18523659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002363