This is particularly important given the emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of the disease.
About one quarter of previously untreated TB patients were infected with the multi-drug-resistant TB.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
In a 2003 study, the researchers reported 30% of their newly diagnosed patients were multi-drug-resistant.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
Last year, Mumbai's government program diagnosed and treated about 30 new patients with multi-drug-resistance a month.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
They then develop resistance to several medications, thus infecting their communities with multi-drug resistant strains of TB.
The WHO and India currently estimate India has about 100, 000 of the 650, 000 people in the world with multi-drug-resistance.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
Almost half of patients with the multi-drug resistant form of the disease die.
This included a large number of newly diagnosed patients, 13% of whom were found to be multi-drug-resistant, the study said.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
Through Partners in Health, this approach successfully checked multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in Peru.
It is curable in almost all who are treated, but the rate of recovery from multi-drug-resistance is far lower, although studies vary widely.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
India is addressing the issue of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis with a plan endorsed by international experts, including the WHO, during the latest monitoring mission in August.
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The report also highlighted problems treating people with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
In some small studies in India, a big portion of untreated or newly diagnosed patients were multi-drug-resistant, meaning they had picked up resistant forms of the disease.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
In Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state with 200 million people, a study published in 2008 in the Indian Journal of Medical Research showed about 20% of TB patients were multi-drug-resistant.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
When doctors carried out throat swabs from 82 other children at the centre, they found that ten were carrying the same multi-drug resistant strain of bacteria found in the two ill children.
The WHO's latest estimate that about 2.1% of previously untreated and 15% of previously treated TB patients in India are multi-drug-resistant is based on surveys done by just a few Indian states, he said.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
When China released its first nationwide survey this year, it found 5.7% of that country's newly diagnosed TB patients were multi-drug-resistant, according to a study published this year in the New England Journal of Medicine.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
Separately, India plans to begin its first ever national survey during the next few months to determine the rate of multi-drug-resistance nationwide, according to Prahlad Kumar, director of the National Tuberculosis Institute, a government research and training center in Bangalore.
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This comes on top of less-than-positive results concerning a late-stage study of Erbitux, ImClone's multi-billion colorectal drug, combined with chemotherapy.
Mr Ellwood is organising a multi-agency conference to discuss drug dealing in Bournemouth on 21 September at Bournemouth Town Hall.
Are we to believe two multi-medalists used the new drug this year, but that nobody used the old version either at Salt Lake City or in the Summer Olympics two years ago in Sydney?
They obtained the monopoly of the multi-billion dollar industry after rival drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed by police in 1993.
Nissen headed a multi-center trial to see if the drug could reduce cholesterol buildup in arteries.
The new FDA plan is the latest step in a multi-agency Federal effort to address prescription drug abuse, a major public health problem in the United States.
Recent studies also indicate that the dopamine activity in the brain of a digital multi-tasker is similar to that in a drug user.
But the bar was being raised: while in the past his rewards had come from finding leads, all the multi-national agencies (and the few remaining drug companies) were much more focused these days on clinical successes.
She said the emphasis should be on how many schools hold multi-agency events to make youngsters aware of the harms of drug and alcohol abuse, she suggested.
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