Why is long-term therapy required to cure tuberculosis?
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 17388672.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1831743.
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Abstract
The authors argue that understanding and countering general bacterial mechanisms of phenotypic antibiotic resistance may hold the key to reducing the duration of treatment of all recalcitrant bacterial infections, including tuberculosis.
Medical subject headings
- Antitubercular Agents
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary