But it's a potential public health catastrophe with the new strain called XDR-TB, for extensively drug resistant tuberculosis.
Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker may be the most well-known patient with drug-resistant tuberculosis in America, but he's not the only one.
An even more stubborn version, resistant to more antibiotics, is called extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and has been detected in 84 countries.
Through Partners in Health, this approach successfully checked multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in Peru.
Until now, there have been no credible nationwide data on how widespread drug-resistant tuberculosis is in India, or how rapidly it is spreading.
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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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One thing that gets a bit lost in the noise is multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, which remains a huge threat worldwide, especially in an age of globalization.
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The report also highlighted problems treating people with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
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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Myanmar has one of the world's highest rates of tuberculosis and drug-resistant forms of both tuberculosis and malaria are spreading.
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.
Treatment-resistant strains of tuberculosis are spreading rapidly in Russia and China.
Mr. Patch would surely agree that a major effort to preventing war and human suffering must be to support continued medical research, especially to ameliorate emerging epidemics such as worldwide "Lyme Disease", drug-resistant malaria and tuberculosis, and parasitism.
Drug-resistant strains of everything from tuberculosis to staphylococcus are killing tens of thousands of patients every year.
Tuberculosis which appears to be totally resistant to antibiotic treatment has been reported for the first time by Indian doctors.
On October 13th a study published in Science Translational Medicine revealed that early-stage trials show a new tuberculosis vaccine may work against drug-resistant strains of that killer disease.
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He also advises asking for proof of a tuberculosis screening within the past year, as well as a recent test for community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), which can be transmitted by skin-to-skin contact and cause painful skin infections and boils.
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