99% of MDR-TB patients got drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) strains from someone who was already infected with DR-TB
Submitted by Bobby Ramakant (bobby) about 6 months ago
The study found that most resistance is not a direct result of treatment failure but a result of transmission of the disease from initial treatment failure, ABC News reports. "We found 99 percent of cases are due to transmission from somebody else who had a resistant strain," said Andrew Francis, one of the study researchers from the University of Western Sydney. Read source article...
Keywords: drug resistance extensively drug-resistant M/XDR-TB MDR-TB multi-drug resistant TB tuberculosis XDR-TB
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