Chapter 4. Treatment
- Chapter Cover
- Consultation with experts
- Classification of anti-tuberculosis drugs
- Starting an expanded empiric treatment regimen
- Individualized treatment regimens
- Selection and dosing of individual drugs: Additional considerations
- Individual regimens for specific MDR-TB resistance patterns
- Extensively drug-resistant M. tuberculosis (XDR-TB)
- Specific drugs
- Administration of the treatment regimen
- Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)
- Role of surgery
- Outcomes of treatment
- References