Michael Smith - 'Totally' Resistant TB Surfaces in India
January 24, 2012 Drug resistance in tuberculosis appears to have reached a peak in several patients in India, who are virtually untreatable with available medications.
In a letter to Clinical Infectious Diseases, published online, Mumbai physicians described four patients whose TB was resistant to five front-line drugs and seven second-line medications.
They are "totally drug-resistant," according to Zarir Udwadia, MD, and colleagues at P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre in Mumbai.
Udwadia and colleagues blamed the rise of such resistance on India's healthcare system, which has had some success against normal TB, but which they said does not pay enough attention to resistant strains.
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