PLoS Medicine (Feb 2015)

The movement of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis across borders in East Africa needs a regional and global solution.

  • Kevin P Cain,
  • Nina Marano,
  • Maureen Kamene,
  • Joseph Sitienei,
  • Subroto Mukherjee,
  • Aleksandar Galev,
  • John Burton,
  • Orkhan Nasibov,
  • Jackson Kioko,
  • Kevin M De Cock

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001791
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2
p. e1001791

Abstract

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Kevin Cain and colleagues reflect on the cross border movement of people from Somalia with MDR-TB and the implications for MDR-TB programs in East Africa.