He has extensively drug-resistant TB and is being held in an Arizona hospital under court order.
"She had been working where MDR is common, " he said, using shorthand for multidrug-resistant TB.
The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing one new medication, bedaquiline, to treat drug-resistant TB.
The Journal also showed that the WHO's own policies inadvertently helped drug-resistant TB to flourish.
And between 2009 and 2011, drug-resistant TB cases doubled in the 27 most-affected countries.
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Treating patients with drug resistant TB is beyond the pocket of many developing countries.
In 2010, it caused 1.4m deaths, 8.8 million new infections and 450 thousand drug-resistant TB cases.
They find one or two cases of multidrug-resistant TB a year, the official said.
About one quarter of previously untreated TB patients were infected with the multi-drug-resistant TB.
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From their analysis, the WHO team estimated there were 424, 000 cases of multidrug-resistant TB world-wide in 2004.
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Perhaps one in five patients with drug-resistant TB is ordered, like Speaker, to stay in the hospital until declared no longer contagious.
Barrister Anna Watterson spoke of how she became ill with drug-resistant TB when she was a law student living in north-west London.
Last year it said it would scale up its treatment of drug-resistant TB and eventually test all TB patients for resistance at their initial diagnosis.
But he takes a hard line toward people with drug-resistant TB.
This is one way that drug-resistant TB has emerged over time.
Doctors found extensive lung damage and diagnosed drug-resistant TB.
The change followed a Journal investigation in 2012 revealing that India, for years, had ignored evidence of increasing drug resistance and today likely has far higher rates of resistant TB than officially reported.
We must do a better job of identifying drug-resistant TB in these countries, giving patients the right treatment, and limiting the spread of this disease that can be passed through a simple cough.
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In particular, how the unnamed man with extensively drug-resistant TB could have been allowed to leave the United States for a European wedding and honeymoon, and how he could have then flown back from Prague to Montreal despite stern official warnings not to travel on commercial aircraft.
Concern over drug-resistant strains of TB is growing, with similar 'incurable' TB emerging in Italy and Iran.
They then develop resistance to several medications, thus infecting their communities with multi-drug resistant strains of TB.
The problem, however, is that if a patient's TB is resistant to some of those drugs, the cocktail won't work.
For confirmed XDR-TB, in which the bacterium is resistant to the most potent first- and second-line TB medicines, the WHO recommends that a proper combination of any medicine left among those available, dictated by knowledge of susceptibility, should be used.
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XDR-TB is a particularly dangerous form of the disease that is resistant not only to the two most potent TB drugs, but also a handful of second-line drugs.
Despite the decline in regular TB, drug resistant strains of the disease have worsened and spread here and globally.
For instance, the drugs needed to treat drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB) are much more expensive than are the drugs used to treat nonresistant TB.
The same preliminary analysis showed rates were far higher for Mumbai, where 28% of patients tested at one clinic were resistant to the most powerful TB medicine.
For doctors who don't specialize in TB, treatment of resistant strains gets tricky.
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