Innovations for Tackling Tuberculosis in the Time of Covid-19: Proceedings of a Workshop

by Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Health and Medicine Division, et al.

Despite being preventable and curable since the middle of the twentieth century, tuberculosis (TB) has long persisted as the world's deadliest infectious disease, with the communities most devastated by TB among the poorest and most vulnerable in the world. Only about half of people with TB receive successful treatment each year. As the global threat of antimicrobial resistance continues to escalate, so do cases of drug-resistant TB, or TB that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309686423
• ISBN13: 9780309686426
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 194 Pages