Successful treatment of multi-focal XDR tuberculous osteomyelitis

Successful treatment of multi-focal XDR tuberculous osteomyelitis

Summary: We herein describe the nosocomial transmission of a pre-XDR or MDR case of pulmonary tuberculosis in a HIV-negative health care worker in an area endemic for MDR and XDR tuberculosis. Following inadequate therapy and non-compliance, he presented with extra-pulmonary XDR tuberculosis in the...

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Main Authors:	Abeer N. Alshukairi, Abdulrahman A. Alrajhi, Abdulfattah W. Alamri, Adel F. Alothman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2016-07-01
Series:	Journal of Infection and Public Health
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034115001938

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