Extensive drug resistance in malaria and tuberculosis. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Drug resistance in malaria and in tuberculosis (TB) are major global health problems. Although the terms multidrug-resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB are precisely defined, the term multidrug resistance is often loosely used when discussing malaria. Recent declines in the clinical effectiveness of antimalarial drugs, including artemisinin-based combination therapy, have prompted the need to revise the definitions of and/or to recategorize antimalarial drug resistance to include extensively drug-resistant malaria. Applying precise case definitions to different levels of drug resistance in malaria and TB is useful for individual patient care and for public health.

publication date

  • July 1, 2010

Research

keywords

  • Malaria
  • Tuberculosis

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3321906

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 77954443049

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1186/1475-2875-7-96

PubMed ID

  • 20587175

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 16

issue

  • 7