Drug-resistant tuberculosis: time for visionary political leadership

Two decades ago, WHO declared tuberculosis a global emergency, and invested in the highly cost-effective directly observed treatment short-course programme to control the epidemic. At that time, most strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were susceptible to first-line tuberculosis drugs, and drug re...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Lancet infectious diseases Jg. 13; H. 6; S. 529 - 539
Hauptverfasser:	Abubakar, Ibrahim, Zignol, Matteo, Falzon, Dennis, Raviglione, Mario, Ditiu, Lucica, Masham, Susan, Adetifa, Ifedayo, Ford, Nathan, Cox, Helen, Lawn, Stephen D, Marais, Ben J, McHugh, Timothy D, Mwaba, Peter, Bates, Matthew, Lipman, Marc, Zijenah, Lynn, Logan, Simon, McNerney, Ruth, Zumla, Adam, Sarda, Krishna, Nahid, Payam, Hoelscher, Michael, Pletschette, Michel, Memish, Ziad A, Kim, Peter, Hafner, Richard, Cole, Stewart, Migliori, Giovanni Battista, Maeurer, Markus, Schito, Marco, Zumla, Alimuddin
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	London Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2013 Lancet Publishing Group Elsevier Limited
Schlagworte:	Antitubercular Agents - therapeutic use Bacterial diseases Biological and medical sciences Drug resistance Epidemics Global Health Human bacterial diseases Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Infectious Disease Infectious diseases Medical sciences Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis - drug effects Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Pandemics Prevalence Public health Tuberculosis Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - drug therapy Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - epidemiology World Health Organization Infection Resistance Bacteriosis Tuberculosis Mycobacterial infection
ISSN:	1473-3099, 1474-4457, 1474-4457
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