TY - JOUR T1 - Untreatable tuberculosis: is surgery the answer? JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 577 LP - 582 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00229514 VL - 45 IS - 3 AU - Masoud Dara AU - Giovanni Sotgiu AU - Richard Zaleskis AU - Giovanni Battista Migliori Y1 - 2015/03/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/3/577.abstract N2 - According to the 2014 World Health Organization (WHO) Global Report, tuberculosis (TB) continues to be the most important infectious disease in terms of incidence and mortality, along with HIV/AIDS: 9 million new cases and 1.5 million deaths are estimated to have occurred in 2013 [1]. No TB elimination is possible till the prevalence of drug-resistant TB is lowered at the global level http://ow.ly/GgUNg The authors would like to thank Linda Barkane (Latvian Center for TB and Pulmonary Disease), who kindly provided the chest radiographs of the MDR-TB patients. ER -