Nearly 10 per cent of MDR cases are thought to be of the even deadlier XDR (extensively drug resistant) variety, which does not respond to a yet wider range of drugs.
Posted On: 02/16/2014 2:46:22 PM
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some 450 000 people developed multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB in 2012 and 170,000 died from it. MDR TB does not respond to the most potent TB drugs — isoniazid and rifampin.
Like other drug-resistant microbes, MDR and XDR TB can be transferred directly between people — you can get it even if you have never taken antibiotics in your life.
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“In some parts of the world, already we have run out of antibiotics,” said Timothy Walsh, a professor of medical microbiology at Cardiff University.
“In places in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, possibly Russia, Southeast Asia, central South America, we are at the end game.......
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