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Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: a threat to global control of tuberculosis [1]

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Although progress has been made to reduce global incidence of drug-susceptible tuberculosis, the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis during the past decade threatens to undermine these advances. However, countries are responding far too slowly.

Publication Date: 
22/05/2010
Neel R Gandhi [2], Paul Nunn [3], Keertan Dheda & et al [4]
Lancet [5]
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Health [6], Health Care [7], Health Policy [8], Medical Research [9], Diagnostic Methods [10], Drugs [11], Tuberculosis [12], China [13], Russia [14], India [15], Lancet [5], Global [16], Neel R Gandhi [2], Paul Nunn [3], Keertan Dheda & et al [4]
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