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The Potential Impact of Up-Front Drug Sensitivity Testing on India’s Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
BACKGROUND: In India as elsewhere, multi-drug resistance (MDR) poses a serious challenge in the control of tuberculosis (TB). The End TB strategy, recently approved by the world health assembly, aims to reduce TB deaths by 95% and new cases by 90% between 2015 and 2035. A key pillar of this approach...
Autores principales: | Sachdeva, Kuldeep Singh, Raizada, Neeraj, Gupta, Radhey Shyam, Nair, Sreenivas Achuthan, Denkinger, Claudia, Paramasivan, Chinnambedu Nainarappan, Kulsange, Shubhangi, Thakur, Rahul, Dewan, Puneet, Boehme, Catharina, Arinaminpathy, Nimalan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488842/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26132584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131438 |
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