The relationship between chest X-ray findings, bacterial load and treatment-related outcomes in persons with extensively drug resistant TB

Includes bibliographical references. === Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was first recognized in the 1990s with an increase in caseload of eighty-two percent between 2000 and 2007. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), a more difficult and more expensive form of TB to treat wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Te Riele, Julian Bernard
Other Authors: Dheda, Keertan
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13289