title: Treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  What is the best approach to the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB)?
  
  
  RESULTS
  Evidence-based treatment of drug-susceptible TB is the best means of preventing the development of drug-resistant disease. Suspecting the possibility of drug-resistant TB, and prompt detection of all forms of drug-resistant TB, not only multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB, should be part of the algorithm for diagnosis and management of all patients with active TB.
  
  
  METHODS
  Treatment of all forms of drug-resistant TB must be tailored to the specific form of resistance with appropriate and effective drug regimens.
authors: Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada;
authors: Lancelot
authors: L
authors: Pinto
authors: Dick
authors: D
authors: Menzies