Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) in a high income country: a report of four unrelated cases

S. Blaas, R. Mütterlein, J. Weig, A. Neher, B. Salzberger, N. Lehn, L. Naumann (Regensburg, Parsberg, Neustadt, Waldnaab, München-Gauting, Oberschleissheim, Germany)

Source: Annual Congress 2007 - Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and the emerging threat of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
Disease area: Respiratory infections

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