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

Board on Health Sciences Policy, Development, and Translation Forum on Drug Discovery, Institute of Medicine

National Academies Press, 2014

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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.

ISBN-13
9780309285964
ISBN-10
0309285968
Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2014
Publication date
2014-02-28
Pages
218
Dimensions
229x152x25
Weight
372