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SUBMITTER: Silva DR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6044661 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Silva Denise Rossato DR Dalcolmo Margareth M Tiberi Simon S Arbex Marcos Abdo MA Munoz-Torrico Marcela M Duarte Raquel R D'Ambrosio Lia L Visca Dina D Rendon Adrian A Gaga Mina M Zumla Alimuddin A Migliori Giovanni Battista GB
Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia 20180401 2
Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB and XDR-TB, respectively) continue to represent a challenge for clinicians and public health authorities. Unfortunately, although there have been encouraging reports of higher success rates, the overall rate of favorable outcomes of M/XDR-TB treatment is only 54%, or much lower when the spectrum of drug resistance is beyond that of XDR-TB. Treating M/XDR-TB continues to be a difficult task, because of the high incidence of a ...[more]