Browsing by Subject "multidrug-resistant tuberculosis"

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Clinical evaluation of tuberculosis viability microscopy for assessing treatment response

Datta, Sumona; Sherman, Jonathan M.; Bravard, Marjory A.; Valencia, Teresa; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Evans, Carlton Anthony William (Oxford University Press, 2015)

BACKGROUND: It is difficult to determine whether early tuberculosis treatment is effective in reducing the infectiousness of patients' sputum, because culture takes weeks and conventional acid-fast sputum microscopy and ...
Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in Contacts of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis.

Huang, Chuan-Chin; Becerra, Mercedes C.; Calderon, Roger; Contreras, Carmen; Galea, Jerome; Grandjean, Louis; Lecca, Leonid; Yataco, Rosa; Zhang, Zibiao; Murray, Megan (American Thoracic Society, 2020)

RATIONALE: The World Health Organization recommends the use of isoniazid alone or in combination with rifapentine to treat latent tuberculosis infection. The recent rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis has complicated the ...

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