Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
World Health Organization’s TB care advice violated standards, researchers say (post)
Durham, NC - The World Health Organization (WHO) violated sound standards of medical care and human rights by nudging poorer countries to follow less expensive, untested and largely ineffective treatment protocols for tuberculosis patients, a new paper by researchers at Duke, Brandeis and Harvard universities argues.
Revealing the global burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis in children (post)
-- At least 67 million children are infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
-- TB in children is increasingly recognised as a significant public health problem
Evaluation of the GenoType MTBDRplus assay for detection of rifampicin- and isoniazid-resistant M. tuberculosis isolates in central Ethiopia (post)
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India: One out of 20 children with TB has drug-resistant infection (post)
One in every 20 children, who were diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) at Mumbai’s private hospitals between September 2014 and April 2016, had drug-resistant forms of the infection, revealed data by Private Provider Interface Agency (PPIA), which operates under the supervision of the BMC. Under the PPIA initiative, 1,826 paediatric cases were reported by 116 doctors during the period.
How drug-resistant TB can show the path to tackling antimicrobial resistance (post)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat, and it is estimated that by 2050, 10 million lives a year and a cumulative US$100 trillion of economic output are at risk due to the rise of drug-resistant infections, if we do not find solutions to tackle the problem.
Old drugs may offer new hope in resistant TB (post)
New combinations of commercial drugs might be able to effectively treat patients who have built up a resistance to antituberculosis drugs, researchers said.
Success against deadly drug-resistant TB in rural KwaZulu-Natal (post)
Tugela Ferry is a remote KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) district of 180,000 people that became infamous in 2006. Here it was discovered that 53 people had contracted a type of tuberculosis (TB) that was resistant to most anti-TB medicines. All but one of the patients died. All those tested for HIV were positive.
South Africa site for shortened TB treatments (post)
Durban - The second stage of clinical trials to test shortened treatment regimes for drug-resistant TB to as short as six months, is expected to take place in 10 countries, including at four hospitals in South Africa.
Shortened regimen for MDR-TB shows good results for children (post)
The use of the shortened 9-month treatment regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), known as the ‘Bangladesh regimen’ has shown to be successful in 83% of children and adolescents diagnosed with rifampicin-resistant (RR) TB.
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