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Titolo: |
Treatment of tuberculosis : guidelines
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Pubblicazione: | Geneva, : World Health Organization, 2010 |
Edizione: | 4th ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (159 p.) |
Disciplina: | 616.995061 |
Soggetto topico: | Antitubercular agents |
Tuberculosis - Chemotherapy | |
Patient compliance | |
Note generali: | Previous editions had different title : "Treatment of tuberculosis : guidelines for national programmes". |
"WHO/HTM/TB/2009.420." | |
"World Health Organization, Stop TB Dept." | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Executive summary; Introduction; Case definitions; Standard treatment regimens; Monitoring during treatment; Co-management of HIV and active TB disease; Supervision and patient support; Treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis; Treatment of extrapulmonary TB and of TB in special situations; Annexes; Essential first-line antituberculosis drugs; Summary of evidence and considerations underlying the recommendations; TB treatment outcomes; Suggestions for future research |
Sommario/riassunto: | The World Health Organization's Stop TB Department has prepared this fourth edition of Treatment of Tuberculosis: Guidelines, adhering fully to the new WHO process for evidence-based guidelines. Several important recommendations are being promoted in this new edition. First, the recommendation to discontinue the regimen based on just 2 months of rifampicin (2HRZE/6HE) and change to the regimen based on a full 6 months of rifampicin (2HRZE/4HR) will reduce the number of relapses and failures. This will alleviate patient suffering resulting from a second episode of tuberculosis (TB) and conserve |
Titolo autorizzato: | Treatment of tuberculosis ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-76081-5 |
9786612760815 | |
92-4-068535-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910140820303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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