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Title 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
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 128 pages) : illustrations
Series Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press
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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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-93)
Notes English
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Subject Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis -- South Africa -- Prevention -- Congresses
Tuberculosis -- South Africa -- Congresses
Drug resistance -- Congresses
Drug resistance.
Antitubercular agents.
Drug Resistance -- South Africa -- Congresses
Drug Resistance -- South Africa -- Congresses
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant -- prevention & control
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant -- prevention & control -- South Africa -- Congresses
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant -- prevention & control -- South Africa -- Congresses
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant -- epidemiology -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis -- prevention & control -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses
Drug Resistance
Antitubercular Agents -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis -- epidemiology -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant -- prevention & control -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant -- epidemiology
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis -- prevention & control
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis -- epidemiology
Antitubercular Agents
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
Antitubercular agents
Drug resistance
Tuberculosis
SUBJECT Africa, Southern. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001653
South Africa
Africa, Southern
Subject Southern Africa
South Africa
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Claiborne, Anne B.
Lebovitz, Yeonwoo.
Olson, Steve, 1956-
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation.
Academy of Science of South Africa.
LC no. 2011377446
ISBN 9780309160254
0309160251
9786613081544
661308154X
1283081547
9781283081542
0309211603
9780309211604