MDR tuberculosis control: time to change the dogma?

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¹ Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA. Electronic address: annelies.vanrie@uantwerpen.be.
² DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research/SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa.

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Annelies Van Rie et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2015 Dec.

. 2015 Dec;3(12):907-9.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(15)00477-4. Epub 2015 Nov 18.

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA. Electronic address: annelies.vanrie@uantwerpen.be.
² DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research/SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa.

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Burden of transmitted multidrug resistance in epidemics of tuberculosis: a transmission modelling analysis.
Kendall EA, Fofana MO, Dowdy DW. Kendall EA, et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2015 Dec;3(12):963-72. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(15)00458-0. Epub 2015 Nov 18. Lancet Respir Med. 2015. PMID: 26597127 Free PMC article.