You'd think the emergence of a fatal disease—especially one that can be spread without physical contact—would be a big story. Yet a threatening new form of tuberculosis called extremely drug-resistant ...

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An estimated 440 000 cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) occurred worldwide in 2008 (3•6% of all TB cases that year), but only 7% of these cases were identified and treated. Extensively ...

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A female patient with an extremely hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis is being treated at the National Institutes of Health outside Washington, D.C., and federal and state officials are now tracking ...

Over the course of my 13-year career as a lung specialist, I’ve had to be the one to tell dozens of shocked patients exactly this: finishing a course of TB treatment doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ...

In the world of tuberculosis (TB) control, it is the worst-case scenario. Doctors in Mumbai, India, reported last month they are seeing a group of patients infected with what they called "totally drug ...

In the last two months, Mumbai has gained in terms of government attention (a special TB programme), money (the city’s TB budget may increase 6 times) and infrastructure (new labs, machines), but the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The hardest-to-treat form of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat in many parts of the world, but remains quite rare in the United States, U.S. government health ...