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[Update on multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Switzerland].
Revue medicale suisse - 16 Nov 2016
Knuchel Judith, Lador Frédéric, Soccal Paola M, Janssens Jean-Paul
Abstract excerpt
Multi-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a world-wide public-health problem with about half a million cases/year (of a total of 9 million cases of TB). Patients at highest risk for MDR-TB are those who have already been treated. Among other risk factors are: contact with an index case of MDR-TB, being a migrant, and originating from a country with a high incidence of MDR-TB. Switzerland has had so far a...
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