In India and China, fewer than 10 percent of drug-resistant cases were confirmed by diagnosis in 2011.
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Dr. Alpa Dalal, a chest physician at GTB Hospital, Mumbai's main TB hospital, said she has been warning government TB officials that the standard cocktail isn't working for many of her drug-resistant cases.
And between 2009 and 2011, drug-resistant TB cases doubled in the 27 most-affected countries.
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In 2010, it caused 1.4m deaths, 8.8 million new infections and 450 thousand drug-resistant TB cases.
In the UK, the HPA has recorded eight cases of oseltamivir-resistant H1N1pdm09 in the community setting.
They find one or two cases of multidrug-resistant TB a year, the official said.
In some cases the parasites are resistant to every drug that can be thrown at them.
From their analysis, the WHO team estimated there were 424, 000 cases of multidrug-resistant TB world-wide in 2004.
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Nepal reported more than 35, 000 TB cases in 2011, and 2.9% of new and 12% of previously-treated TB cases are multidrug-resistant, according to WHO data.
One of the most severe cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the United States has been reported in southern Texas: a strain of TB resilient to at least eight of the 15 drugs used to treat this deadly airborne disease.
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The researchers believe about 1% of new cases of TB are caused by multidrug-resistant strains.
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About 1.2% of cases in the US are "multidrug-resistant", and can withstand antibiotics commonly used to treat the illness, according to CDC statistics.
Personal touchscreen devices aren't as bad as the self-checkout screens in grocery stores, but he knows of rare cases where people contracted a serious skin disease called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, from sharing a cell phone with bacteria on it.
His early results suggest that in advanced cases blasting the tumor with too much chemo can backfire by allowing resistant cells to take over and kill the patient faster.
Both hit all but one of dozens of Gleevec-resistant strains in the test tube, and in trials they send a large minority of such tough cases into remission.
In other cases, grain spoils due to the lack of simple things such as high quality weather-resistant bags.
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