Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in women, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Published in Emerg Infect Dis on October 01, 2011

Authors

Max R O'Donnell1, Jennifer Zelnick, Lise Werner, Iqbal Master, Marian Loveday, C Robert Horsburgh, Nesri Padayatchi

Author Affiliations

1: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

A Nurse Case Management Intervention to Improve MDR-TB/HIV Co-Infection Outcomes | NCT02129244

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