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XDR tuberculosis spreads across South Africa
Kapp C. XDR tuberculosis spreads across South Africa. Lancet. 2007 Mar 3;369(9563):729.

South Africa is struggling to contain an outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, which has now spread to all the country’s provinces, according to the Department of Health, and threatens to hamper HIV/AIDS treatment plans. Clare Kapp reports from South Africa.



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