Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
Twenty years of global surveillance of antituberculosis drug resistance (post)
The development of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis was first documented in the late 1940s, soon after antibiotic therapy was introduced for tuberculosis treatment.It quickly became obvious that combination chemotherapy could prevent the emergence of drug resistance and that patients infected with drug-resistant strains were less likely to be cured.Nevertheless, it was only in the early 1990s that drug-resistant tuberculosis began to receive global attention as a public health threat. This coincided with the detection of outbreaks of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (defined as resistance to at least rifampin and isoniazid) that were associated with high mortality among patients coinfected with HIV. The urgent need for a global mechanism to monitor the emergence and spread of resistance to antituberculosis drugs became clear.
Tackling TB in India: Poor counselling, huge dropout rate hamper treatment (post)
Raju Ramchandra (20) represents everything that is wrong with the government-run Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP). An orphan, his tuberculosis deteriorated to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) though he was healthy until 2015-end. Now with a shrunken form, the whites of his eyes enlarged and voice feeble, he says he could not register for RNTCP in Virar because he had no necessary identification proof.
India: Why aren't more TB patients getting the new life-saving drug? Geography is one reason (post)
Sexagenarian Shekhar Verma* lives in Faridabad, Haryana which is part of National Capital Region. A general store owner, he has developed resistance to many crucial antibiotics while being treated for tuberculosis for the last couple of years. The doctor at the National Institute of Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases told Verma that the only antibiotic that has high success for patients like him is Bedaquiline. But he cannot get Bedaquiline under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, government’s tuberculosis control programme.
Multidrug-resistant TB treatment failure detection depends on monitoring interval and microbiological method (post)
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MDR-TB treatment costs 235% one's income: Study (post)
MUMBAI: Some forms of tuberculosis are so expensive to treat that an average Mumbai family could spend over half its annual income on a single patient.
Romania's drug-resistant TB patients – in pictures (post)
TB has now surpassed HIV as the world’s deadliest infectious disease, and Romania has the highest number of drug-resistant TB cases in the EU. Tom Maguire, who works for campaign group Results, visited hospitals, sanatoriums and prisons in Romania to meet with drug-resistant TB patients. His photos capture the loneliness that many patients feel being away from their loved ones, recieving treatment that can last up to two years.
Prevalence of drug-resistant TB among patients seen in Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya (post)
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U.S. agencies release progress report on National Action Plan for Combating MDR-TB (post)
On 22 December 2015 the White House officially released a plan to address multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) domestically and internationally and to advance research on this critical public health issue through a National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis.
A cure has no use if it cannot be widely distributed, managed and accessed (post)
Dr. Fathiya hands us each a blue mask, instructing us to cover our nose and mouth as we pull the bands snugly behind our heads. She insists that we ensure there is a tight seal all along the blue cloth between it and our cheeks, noses, and chins. We are about to enter "The Gazebo" and must take extra precautions to protect ourselves and the patients on the other side from the spread of infections.
TB drug affects vision in some patients (post)
A study, jointly conducted by Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) and Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, has shown that some anti-tuberculosis drugs can have adverse effects on the eye, and can even lead to compromised vision in patients.
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