Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading public health problems worldwide. Declared
as a global emergency in 1993 by the WHO, its control is hampered by the emergence of …

Tuberculosis ranges among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A
diagnostic approach to a patient with possible tuberculosis includes a detailed medical …

Although progress has been made to reduce global incidence of drug-susceptible
tuberculosis, the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant …

The 2-year follow-up results for a randomized placebo-controlled study of 47 patients with
multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis treated with either the new diarylquinoline …

3Current affiliation: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland untreatable forms of
drug-resistant TB that had not been described previously in different parts of the world, we …

Assesses the emergence of extensively-drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) worldwide
during 2000-2004. Number of XDR TB reported during the period; Implication of the …

Rationale: The dual challenges to tuberculosis (TB) control of HIV infection and multidrug
resistance are particularly pressing in South Africa. Conventional methods for detecting …

Twenty Years of Global Surveillance of Antituberculosis-Drug Resistance | New England Journal
of Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine homepage Advanced …

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is defined as disease caused by
Mycobacterium tuberculosis with resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, any …

The objectives of this study were to investigate the origin of highly discordant rifampin
(rifampicin)(RMP) drug susceptibility test results obtained for Mycobacterium tuberculosis …