Epidemic Levels of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR and XDR-TB) in a High HIV Prevalence Setting in Khayelitsha, South Africa

BACKGROUND: Although multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is emerging as a significant threat to tuberculosis control in high HIV prevalence countries such as South Africa, limited data is available on the burden of drug resistant tuberculosis and any association with HIV in such settings. We c...

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Autores principales: Cox, Helen S., McDermid, Cheryl, Azevedo, Virginia, Muller, Odelia, Coetzee, David, Simpson, John, Barnard, Marinus, Coetzee, Gerrit, van Cutsem, Gilles, Goemaere, Eric
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21085569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013901

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21085569
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013901

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