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The figures provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its 2013 global tuberculosis (TB) report are remarkable; TB continues to represent a significant clinical and public health problem worldwide [1]. The successes obtained by implementing and scaling-up the WHO public health strategies between 1995 and 2012 (i.e. 22 million lives saved and 56 million patients successfully treated) are outstanding. However, in spite of the dramatic decrease in incidence, prevalence and mortality [1] much needs to be done, and the new WHO post-2015 strategy (which is focused on the concept of TB elimination) is providing further guidance [2–4].
Abstract
New experimental evidence on anti-TB regimes based on low-efficacious linezolid dosage to treat XDR-TB patients http://ow.ly/C9YpZ
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Conflict of interest: None declared.
- Received August 7, 2014.
- Accepted August 7, 2014.
- Copyright ©ERS 2015