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Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis – 2011 update

World Health Organization.

This 2011 update of Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis is intended as a tool for use by public health professionals working in response to the Sixty-second World Health Assembly’s resolution on prevention and control of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensi...

Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos/tratamiento farmacológico, Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos/prevención & control, Antituberculosos/administración & dosificación, Infecciones por VIH/tratamiento farmacológico, Terapia Antirretroviral Altamente Activa

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Noncommercial culture and drug-susceptibility testing methods for screening patients at risk for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: policy statement

Commercial liquid culture systems and molecular line-probe assays have been endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as gold standards for rapid detection of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB); however, because of technical complexity, cost and the requirement for sophisticated laboratory...