Consensus Not Yet Reached on Key Drugs for Extensively Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment
Author(s) -
Giovanni Battista Migliori,
Giovanni Sotgiu,
M. D’Arcy Richardson,
Rosella Centis,
Gunar Guenther,
Harald Hoffmann,
Daniela María Cirillo,
Olga Toungossova,
Kai Kliiman,
Saverio De Lorenzo,
Antonio Spanevello,
Christoph Lange
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/600060
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , drug , intensive care medicine , drug resistance , extensively drug resistant tuberculosis , medline , pharmacology , mycobacterium tuberculosis , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , biology , political science , law
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) are increasing in frequency globally and are difficult to treat. Although treatment successes have been reported, there are no definitive clinical studies available that show which classes or combinations of available drugs are most effective in yielding\udpositive treatment outcomes
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