Best drug treatment for multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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Published in Lancet Infect Dis on September 01, 2010

Authors

José A Caminero1, Giovanni Sotgiu, Alimuddin Zumla, Giovanni Battista Migliori

Author Affiliations

1: Servicio de Neumología, Hospital General de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain. jcamlun@gobiernodecanarias.org

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