AUTHOR'S BIO
Richard E. Chaisson
Richard E. Chaisson is professor of medicine, epidemiology and international health and Director of the Center for Tuberculosis Research at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He is also principal investigator of the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic (CREATE), an international research consortium to assess the impact of novel strategies for controlling HIV-related TB.
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The Rise of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Susan Dorman and Richard E. Chaisson Series: Health and Medicine 2008-02-25Tuberculosis, once one of our grimmest public health problems, is back. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is an opportunistic predator, and failure to defeat it could transform our pharmacological magic bullets for TB into blanks.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 21870
