Saturday, February 23, 2013

Tuberculosis strain in India 'totally drug-resistant'

At least a dozen people in India are infected with a type of tuberculosis that is resistant to all antibiotics used to treat the disease.

In December, the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases published an online report that documented four of the cases. This weekend, news outlets in India reported that there were actually at least 12 people with the drug-resistant lung disease.

Officials fear that what they've seen so far is just the beginning, and that many more cases are lurking undetected.
A tuberculosis patient takes antibiotics near Mumbai, India. Doctors in that country have identified a dozen cases -- so far -- of "totally drug-resistant" TB. They fear that more are lurking undetected. 

 http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/16/news/la-heb-tb-totally-drug-resistant-india-20120116

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