The new profile of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Russia : a global and local perspective : summary of a joint workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the Russian Academy of Medical Science

The new profile of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Russia : a global and local perspective : summary of a joint workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the Russian Academy of Medical Science / Steve Olsen, Rebecca English, and Anne Claiborne, rapporteurs ; Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

An estimated 2 billion people, one third of the global population, are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. Spread through the air, this infectious disease killed 1.7 million in 2009, and is the leading killer of people with HIV. Tuberculosis (TB) is also...

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Corporate Authors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ medit︠s︡inskikh nauk
Other Authors: Olson, Steve, 1956-, English, Rebecca A., Claiborne, Anne B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2011.
Series:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis > Congresses.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis > Russia > Congresses.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis > Congresses.
Antitubercular agents > Congresses.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis.
Antitubercular agents.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Tuberculosis
Antitubercular agents
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Russia
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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