Multidrug resistance is the main mechanism by which cancers develop resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs. Consequently, it is also an important factor in the failure of many forms of chemotherapy. This review describes the ...

Tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused mainly by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is according to the World Health Organization (WHO) the infectious disease responsible for the highest number of deaths worldwide. The ...

RATIONALE: The World Health Organization recommends the use of isoniazid alone or in combination with rifapentine to treat latent tuberculosis infection. The recent rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis has complicated the ...

Objective: To determine the time from diagnosis to start of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) treatment in Lima, Peru. Methods: We studied new smear-positive TB adults that were started on MDR TB treatment or that ...

Within a mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units–variable number tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) -based molecular epidemiology programme run on prisoners transferred from Peruvian prisons to a Spanish prison, we identified ...

Treatment of enterococcal infections has long been recognized as an important clinical challenge, particularly in the setting of infective endocarditis (IE). Furthermore, the increase prevalence of isolates exhibiting ...

Treatment of enterococcal infections has long been recognized as an important clinical challenge, particularly in the setting of infective endocarditis (IE). Furthermore, the increase prevalence of isolates exhibiting ...