Tuberculosis: Challenges to Improve the Treatment

Title:Tuberculosis: Challenges to Improve the Treatment

Volume: 10 Issue: 3

Author(s): Mariana Moreira Lima, Ariane Trindade, Flávia Carnavalli, Aylime Castanho Bolognesi Melchior, Chung Man Chin and Jean Leandro dos Santos

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Keywords: Drug interactions, extensively drug-resistance, HIV, multi-drug resistance, treatment improvement, tuberculosis, tuberculosis treatment.

Abstract: Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Current treatment has several challenges, such as multi-drug resistance, extensively drug-resistance and HIV co-infection. Problems related to patients, treatment and health care system also contribute negatively to this panel. This review summarizes the main obstacles causing in the treatment of tuberculosis and discusses several strategies to improve the treatment.

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Lima Moreira Mariana, Trindade Ariane, Carnavalli Flávia, Bolognesi Melchior Castanho Aylime, Chin Man Chung and dos Santos Leandro Jean, Tuberculosis: Challenges to Improve the Treatment, Current Clinical Pharmacology 2015; 10 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1574884708666131229124215