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Drug resistant tuberculosis : biology, epidemiology and control / Dr. Christopher Dye.
Henry Stewart Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection Available online
Henry Stewart Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Dye, Christopher, author.
- Series:
- Henry Stewart talks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug resistance in microorganisms.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videorecording (32 min., 27 sec.) : sound, color.
- Other Title:
- Drug resistant tuberculosis
- Place of Publication:
- London : Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, [2015]
- System Details:
- video file
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Why TB patients are treated with drugs
- Natural history and control of TB
- Streptomycin in TB treatment
- Combination therapy of TB
- DOTS strategy (1)
- DOTS strategy (2)
- Reduction in TB death rate
- How drug resistance arises
- Resistance genes
- Mechanism of resistance
- Evolution of resistance by natural selection
- Resistance causes treatment failure
- Initial resistance assists resistance to other drugs
- Risk of acquiring resistance after treatment failure
- Duration and regimen effect on MDR-TB cure rates
- Rifampin-resistant mutants of TB (1)
- Rifampin-resistant mutants of TB (2)
- Isoniazid resistant TB and MDR-TB: fitness
- Geographical distribution of drug resistant TB
- Treatment success reaches 85 percent target
- Reasons for treatment failure under DOTS
- Retreatment proportion: China vs. India
- Cure rates are lower for MDR-TB patients
- 510,000 people developed MDR-TB in 2007
- MDR-TB among previously treated TB patients
- Countries reporting at least one XDR-TB case
- TB drug resistance and HIV
- XDR-TB outbreak in SA and HIV (1)
- XDR-TB outbreak in SA and HIV (2)
- Drug resistant TB is linked to HIV coinfection
- Reversing the spread of drug resistant TB
- TB rates in Europe and Africa
- Benign epidemic
- Severe epidemic
- TB strain prevalence: the USA
- TB strain prevalence: Hong Kong
- TB strain prevalence: Estonia
- TB strain prevalence: Russia
- Reproduction numbers world wide
- Reversing the spread of MDR-TB
- Spread of Beijing TB strains in Cape Town
- Summary
- References.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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