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The emerging threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis in southern Africa : global and local challenges and solution : summary of a joint workshop / by the Institute of Medicine and the Academy of Science of South Africa ; Steve Olson, Yeonwoo Lebovitz, and Anne Claiborne, rapporteurs; Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Board of Medicine, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and Academy of Science of South Africa.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis--Prevention--South Africa--Congresses.
- Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
- Tuberculosis--South Africa--Congresses.
- Tuberculosis.
- Drug resistance--Congresses.
- Drug resistance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (146 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 4,500 people worldwide every day. While most cases of TB can be treated with antibiotics, some strains have developed drug resistance that makes their treatment more expensive, more toxic and less effective for the patient. The IOM Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation and the Academy of Science of South Africa held a workshop to discuss ways to fight the growing threat of drug-resistant TB."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The incidence of drug-resistant TB in South Africa
- Surveillance and tracking of drug-resistant TB
- Transmission and infection control
- Diganosis of drug-resistant TB
- Treatment of drug-resistant TB
- Drug-resistant TB in children
- Convergence of science and policy to create a blueprint for action.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613081544
- 9780309211604
- 0309211603
- 9781283081542
- 1283081547
- 9780309160254
- 0309160251
- OCLC:
- 720652128
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