Journal article
Drug-resistant tuberculosis: an insurmountable epidemic?
Abstract
Drug-resistant tuberculosis has brought back the spectre of pre-antibiotic days. WHO surveillance data from 2007 showed multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)—tubercle bacillus resistant to both isoniazid and rifampicin accounting for 4.8% of all new and subsequent cases of tuberculosis. India and China—the two most populated countries of the world, house the maximum number of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases. In eastern European and …
Authors
Chakroborty A
Journal
Inflammopharmacology, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 131–137
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
June 2011
DOI
10.1007/s10787-010-0072-2
ISSN
0925-4692