One such microbe called Mycobacterium avium is similar to the bug that causes tuberculosis (TB) and causes lung infection.

与引发肺结核和肺部感染的病原体相似的一种病菌叫做鸟结核分枝杆菌。

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Yet that is what is asked of those being treated for tuberculosis (TB).

那是对肺结核病人的要求。

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WHO reports for the first time that the number of people falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining.

世界卫生组织(世卫组织)首次报告称，每年罹患结核病的人数正在出现下降。

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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, will not respond to any of those drugs but might still be treatable.

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Multidrug resistant tuberculosis,or MDR-TB, will not get better with antibiotics normally used for tuberculosis.

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The clinic has seen an increase in the number of people with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis or MDR TB.

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But it's a potential public health catastrophe with the new strain called XDR-TB, for extensively drug resistant tuberculosis.

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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.

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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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