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The burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis and mechanisms for its control
M C Raviglione1, R Gupta, C M Dye
1Communicable Diseases, Stop TB, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. raviglionem@who.int
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|January 25, 2002
Abstract:
Drug resistance in tuberculosis is largely a man-made phenomenon caused by erroneous prescribing practices on the part of physicians and noncompliance on the part of patients. The global epidemiology of drug-resistant TB, the impact of standardized short-course chemotherapy (SSC), and the potential future evolution of MDR TB are discussed in this chapter.