2nd edition. WHO's recommendation has not changed: the standard WHO susceptibility tests should remain a primary method by which resistance is detected. However, it was considered necessary to update the existing resistance-monitoring procedures to also highlight the need for operationally meaningfu...l data.
Two new assays were included in this expanded version: an intensity assay and a synergist assay.
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Frontiers in Pediatrics | www.frontiersin.org
1 April 2019 | Volume 7 | Article 159
Review
S Afr Med J 2014;104(3):174-177. DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.7968
UN, international agencies and experts released a groundbreaking report demanding immediate, coordinated and ambitious action to avert a potentially disastrous drug-resistance crisis.
If no action is taken - warns the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance who release...d the report – drug-resistant diseases could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050 and damage to the economy as catastrophic as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. By 2030, antimicrobial resistance could force up to 24 million people into extreme poverty.
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Current Issüs Arising from Tuberculosis Screening with Interferon-Gamma- Release Assays (IGRAs)
Pneumologie 2015; 69: 271–275
2006-2008 programme report
Towards the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and keeping mothers Alive. 2012-2015
Sub-Saharan African Journal of Medicine: Year : 2014 | Volume : 1 | Issue : 1 | Page : 1-14
Expert opinion of the European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative core group members for the WHO European Region.
Information for policy-makers and planners on conducting deworming as part of an integrated
school health program