The New Profile of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Russia: A Global and Local Perspective: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and

by Institute of Medicine, Forum on Drug Discovery Development and, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, et al.

An estimated 2 billion people, one third of the global population, are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. Spread through the air, this infectious disease killed 1.7 million in 2009, and is the leading killer of people with HIV. Tuberculosis (TB) is also a disease of poverty--the vast majority of tuberculosis deaths occur in the developing world. Exacerbating the devastation caused by TB is the growing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309162971
• ISBN13: 9780309162975
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 158 Pages