Latent tuberculosis may persist for over 40 years
- 15 September 2001
- Vol. 323 (7313) , 635
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.323.7313.635b
Abstract
EDITOR—The recurrence of tuberculous disease emphasises the failure of antimycobacterial treatment based on isoniazid to eradicate latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. We present the follow up of a patient originally reported on in 1953 as a survivor of advanced tuberculous meningitis.1 The original case heralded the remarkable impact of isoniazid in the treatment of tuberculosis. The genomes of M …Keywords
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