European Union standard for tuberculosis care on treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis following new World Health Organization recommendations. Issue 5 (8th November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Migliori, Giovanni Battista; Sotgiu, Giovanni; Rosales-Klintz, Senia; van der Werf, Marieke J.
• Is Part Of: European respiratory journal. Volume 52:Issue 5(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-11-08
• Subjects: Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Respiration -- Periodicals; 616.2
• DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01617-2018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0903-1936

Abstract

The European Respiratory Journal recently published a European Respiratory Society (ERS) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) statement that provided a 2017 update of the European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC) [1], resulting from a joint effort of the ERS and the ECDC. The key changes to treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (World Health Organization, August 2018) should be taken into account when applying standard 12 of the European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care http://ow.ly/nVwl30lI8aF