Drug-resistant tuberculosis--current dilemmas, unanswered questions, challenges, and priority needs.

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Published in J Infect Dis on April 03, 2012

Authors

Alimuddin Zumla1, Ibrahim Abubakar, Mario Raviglione, Michael Hoelscher, Lucica Ditiu, Timothy D McHugh, S Bertel Squire, Helen Cox, Nathan Ford, Ruth McNerney, Ben Marais, Martin Grobusch, Stephen D Lawn, Giovanni-Battista Migliori, Peter Mwaba, Justin O'Grady, Michel Pletschette, Andrew Ramsay, Jeremiah Chakaya, Marco Schito, Soumya Swaminathan, Ziad Memish, Markus Maeurer, Rifat Atun

Author Affiliations

1: University College London, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, London, UK. a.zumla@ucl.ac.uk

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