Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most widespread infectious diseases in the world, infecting an average of 9 million people annually. Although TB is curable, close to 2 million TB-related deaths occur each year. Due in part to a growing global respons...Daugiau...
The emergence of resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs, particularly of MDR-TB and newly XDR-TB, has become a major public health problem. The current treatment regiment has several disadvantages, i.e. long treatment period (DOTS takes minimum 6 mont...Daugiau...
Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, Steve Olson, Rebecca A. English, Anne B. Claiborne
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2014, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309285995)
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most effective first-line anti-TB drugs, originally developed and introduced in the 1950 and 1960s. Since 2008, the Forum on Drug Discovery, De...Daugiau...
Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine, Steve Olson, Rebecca A. English, Anne B. Claiborne
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2014, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309285971)
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most effective first-line anti-TB drugs, originally developed and introduced in the 1950 and 1960s. Since 2008, the Forum on Drug Discovery, De...Daugiau...
Tuberculosis (TB), causing nine million active disease cases and 1.5 million deaths every year, is a formidable public health challenge, particularly in poor and developing countries around the world. Major reasons for global burden of TB include ass...Daugiau...
Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Anne B. Claiborne, Rita S. Guenther, Rebecca A. English, Anna Nicholson
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Feb-2013, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309265980)
To effectively treat patients diagnosed with drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB) and protect the population from further transmission of this infectious disease, an uninterrupted supply of quality-assured (QA), second-line anti-TB drugs (SLDs) is n...Daugiau...
Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Anne B. Claiborne, Rita S. Guenther, Rebecca A. English, Anna Nicholson
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Feb-2013, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309265966)
To effectively treat patients diagnosed with drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB) and protect the population from further transmission of this infectious disease, an uninterrupted supply of quality-assured (QA), second-line anti-TB drugs (SLDs) is n...Daugiau...
Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Anne B. Claiborne, Rita S. Guenther, Rebecca A. English, Steve Olson
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Jul-2012, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309219679)
An estimated 8.8 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2010 and 1.4 million died from the disease. Although antibiotics to treat TB were developed in the 1950s and are effective against a majority of TB cases, resistance to these antibiot...Daugiau...
Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Anne B. Claiborne, Rita S. Guenther, Rebecca A. English, Steve Olson
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Jul-2012, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309219693)
An estimated 8.8 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2010 and 1.4 million died from the disease. Although antibiotics to treat TB were developed in the 1950s and are effective against a majority of TB cases, resistance to these antibiot...Daugiau...
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Anne Claiborne, Rebecca English, Steve Olson
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Jul-2011, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309162982)
An estimated 2 billion people, one third of the global population, are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. Spread through the air, this infectious disease killed 1.7 million in 2009, and is the leading ki...Daugiau...
Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Anne Claiborne, Rebecca English, Steve Olson
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Jul-2011, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309225052)
An estimated 2 billion people, one third of the global population, are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. Spread through the air, this infectious disease killed 1.7 million in 2009, and is the leading ki...Daugiau...
Academy of Science of South Africa, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Anne Claiborne, Yeonwoo Lebovitz, Steve Olson
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Mar-2011, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309160254)
Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 4,500 people worldwide every day. While most cases of TB can be treated with antibiotics, some strains have developed drug resistance that makes their treatment more expensive, more toxic and less effective for t...Daugiau...
Academy of Science of South Africa, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Anne Claiborne, Yeonwoo Lebovitz, Steve Olson
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Mar-2011, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309211604)
Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 4,500 people worldwide every day. While most cases of TB can be treated with antibiotics, some strains have developed drug resistance that makes their treatment more expensive, more toxic and less effective for t...Daugiau...
Institute of Medicine, Sally Robinson, Robert Giffin
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Dec-2009, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309148740)
Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death in the world today, with 4,500 people dying from the disease every day. Many cases of TB can be cured by available antibiotics, but some TB is resistant to multiple drugsa major and growing threat wo...Daugiau...
Institute of Medicine, Sally Robinson, Robert Giffin
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Dec-2009, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309130455)
Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death in the world today, with 4,500 people dying from the disease every day. Many cases of TB can be cured by available antibiotics, but some TB is resistant to multiple drugsa major and growing threat wo...Daugiau...