‘Virtually untreatable’ TB found
Posted on September 6, 2006 Comments (3)
‘Virtually untreatable’ TB found:
Drug resistance is caused by poor TB control, through taking the wrong types of drugs for the incorrect duration.
Multi-drug resistant TB (MDR TB), which describes strains of TB that are resistant to at least two of the main first-line TB drugs, is already a growing concern.
Globally, the WHO estimates there are about 425,000 cases of MDR TB a year, mostly occurring in the former Soviet Union, China and India.
TB Related posts: Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB), May 2007 – Deadly TB Strain is Spreading, WHO Warns, Mar 2007 – Tuberculosis Pandemic Threat, Jan 2007
Related: Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance – Overuse of Antibiotics
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March 23rd, 2007 @ 8:57 am
[…] “The good news is that the global incidence may have peaked,” particularly in China, India, and Indonesia, he said. “The bad news is that although the incidence has declined [there] is resistance to most powerful first-line drugs and a form of TB that is resistant to second-line drugs.” […]
February 23rd, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
“Once routinely treated with cheap antibiotics, TB is poised to make a terrifying comeback. More and more, doctors in developing nations are finding patients infected with strains of TB invulnerable to all but a handful of extremely expensive, exotic drugs…”
February 1st, 2009 @ 5:38 pm
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