Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
Long-term Sirturo therapy safe, effective against MDR-TB (post)
Data presented at ECCMID 2016 showed that a 24-week or longer regimen of Sirturo was well-tolerated and effective against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
InSilixa developing drug-resistance TB test showcasing potential for hundreds of targets (post)
NEW YORK, April 18, 2016 – Sunnyvale, California-based firm InSilixa is developing an assay to test for hundreds of potential targets that confer drug resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Radio story about MDR-TB outbreak in Papua New Guinea (post)
Listen to a radio coverage from journalist and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) survivor Jo Chandler about the terrible MDR-TB epidemic raging in Papua New Guinea.
India: WHO's shorter treatment for multidrug-resistant TB, city may not gain (post)
Mumbai, 13 May 2016: On Thursday , the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave its nod for an affordable drug combination that cuts down time needed to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis from 24 months to around nine months.
The worst superbug? Tuberculosis (post)
"Tackling TB and DR-TB must be at the heart of any global action against Antimicrobial Resistance. The burden of TB is too great and the need for new treatment too urgent." ~ AMR Review.
2016 ‘most important year for antimicrobial resistance in our lifetime’ – WHO official (post)
May 23, 2016 - This year is profoundly important in humanity’s future ability to stave off resistance to antibiotics and other medicines, a top World Health Organization official said on the eve of this week’s annual World Health Assembly.
Mumbai: Hope for multidrug-resistant TB patients (post)
Such patients will be getting treated with bedaquiline drug and their samples have been sent for testing to ensure that they are physically fit to be administered with the drug.
Possible impact of the standardized Category IV regimen on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Mumbai (post)
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There’s a new test to detect drug-resistant TB, but Indian doctors don’t trust it yet (post)
The launch in India of Genedrive – a diagnostic product to detect drug-resistant tuberculosis developed by British firm Epistem – has been questioned by medical experts, including the Indian Council for Medical Research. They have cited a study that claims that the test has poor accuracy.
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