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标题：Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis: an old and new threat
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作者：Lanfranco Fattorini(a) ; Giovanni Battista Migliori(b) ; Antonio Cassone(a) 等
期刊名称：Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanita
印刷版ISSN：0021-2571
出版年度：2007
卷号：43
期号：04
页码：317-319
出版社：Editrice Kurtis Srl
摘要：Tuberculosis (TB) remains a worldwide emergency (8 million new cases per year, 2 million deaths annually) mostly affecting poor countries. To this old, persistent threat, a new emergency is adding further challenge, i.e., the multidrug-resistant TB, which in its extreme and highly lethal form is called XDR TB (extensively drug-resistant TB). How to fight XDR TB is a high research and public health priority.
关键词：Mycobacterium tuberculosis, drug susceptibility testing, first-line drugs, second-line drugs, drug resistance.