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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A global perspective on drug-resistant tuberculosis
- Drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Russian Federation
- Transmission and infection control of drug-resistant TB
- Diagnosis of drug-resistant TB
- Treatment of drug-resistant TB
- TB and drug-resistant TB in vulnerable populations
- The second-line drug supply chain
- The development of new TB diagnostics and drugs
- Convergence of science and policy to create a call for action.