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Global Crisis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Leadership of China and the BRICS

Global Crisis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Leadership of China and the BRICS :Challenges and Opportunities: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Format : Paperback / softback
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN : 9780309285964
Publication Year : 2014
Language : English

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most effective first-line anti-TB drugs, originally developed and introduced in the 1950 and 1960s. This book presents the summary of a workshop convened to address the current status of drug-resistant TB globally and in China.