'Pseudo' Treatment Failure of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Association with a Tuberculoma

Failure of tuberculosis patients to respond to treatment is usually explained by one or more of five mechanisms: improper drug prescription; patient nonadherence to prescribed therapy; primary or acquired drug resistance; drug malabsorption; and rarely, exogenous reinfection with a drug-resistant is...

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Main Authors: Richard Long, Sylvia Chomyc, Evelina Der, Daniel S Sitar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2000-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2000/156183