Treatment outcomes for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Published in Lancet Infect Dis on February 27, 2012

Authors

Dena Ettehad1, H Simon Schaaf, James A Seddon, Graham S Cooke, Nathan Ford

Author Affiliations

1: Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

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