Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis: emergency update 2008

Overview

Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis: emergency update 2008 provides updated guidelines and recommendations on how to manage drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) based on a rapid assessment of the best available evidence by a group of experts.

A fully revised second edition will be published in 2010, following WHO guidance on retrieval, synthesis and grading of evidence. Until that time, the emergency update serves as interim guidance for TB control programmes and medical practitioners on all aspects of the management of DR-TB, including XDR-TB.

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