There is a growing awareness of the importance of sex and gender in medicine and
research. Women typically have stronger immune responses to self and foreign antigens …

Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), including multi-and extensively drug-resistant TB, is
posing a significant challenge to effective treatment and TB control worldwide. New progress …

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is a burgeoning global health crisis mainly affecting
economically active young adults, and has high mortality irrespective of HIV status. In some …

Tuberculosis (TB) is a formidable infectious disease that remains a major cause of death
worldwide today. Escalating application of genomic techniques has expedited the …

To describe factors associated with multidrug-resistant (MDR), including extensively-drug-
resistant (XDR), tuberculosis (TB) in the United States, we abstracted inpatient, laboratory …

The first cases of totally drug‐resistant (TDR) tuberculosis (TB) were reported in Italy 10
years ago; more recently, cases have also been reported in Iran, India and South Africa …

Background Multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis
are emerging worldwide. The Green Light Committee initiative supported programmatic …

Recent surveillance data of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) reported the highest
rates of resistance ever documented. As further amplification of resistance in MDR strains of …

Twenty Years of Global Surveillance of Antituberculosis-Drug Resistance | New England Journal
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Background An increase in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases is evident
worldwide. Its management implies a complex treatment, high costs, more toxic anti …