The Rise of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

Moreover, reports of totally drug resistant tuberculosis have recently emerged from India.

Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) is a difficult to treat strain of TB which, attacks where health systems are historically weak, especially in areas of high HIV prevalence.

Moreover, in 85 countries, extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB, which is virtually untreatable, has been diagnosed.

And, alarmingly, only one in six patients with drug resistant tuberculosis currently receives proper treatment.

Tuberculosis was also soaring, partly as a result of the AIDS epidemic and partly because of the emergence of drug resistant TB.

Unfortunately, multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), which is any TB resistant to the traditional treatments of isoniazid and rifampicin, represents a serious challenge because standard treatment is less effective in curing it, its transmission continues.

New, more effective treatment to prevent tuberculosis, especially the multidrug resistant strains, has also helped.

Addressing drug resistant TB cannot be divorced from overall TB control efforts.

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Since 1973, 30 previously unknown infectious diseases have emerged, and other familiar diseases have spread geographically in new, drug resistant forms.

Moreover, any inadequately treated TB becomes multi drug resistant, so that treatment failure can be either cause or consequence of MDR TB.

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The World Health Organization estimates that there were 425,000 new MDR TB cases in 2004, with China, India, and Russia accounting for just over 60 . But it was an outbreak of XDR TB in HIV infected people in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, that turned the global spotlight on issues of extensively drug resistant organisms.

On December 31, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration approved Sirturo, a Johnson Johnson tuberculosis drug that is the first new medicine to fight the infection in more than forty years.

A frightening new epidemic of multi drug resistant TB or MDR TB, which was much harder to treat than mainstream TB had erupted.

However, over time, other factors behind the growing number of cases, such as immigration and a particular type of drug resistant TB, have emerged.

Poor adherence to the therapeutic regimen, improper prescribing by clinicians, and drug interactions or malabsorption can result in partial suppression of bacterial growth and the emergence of resistant organisms. Once this resistance develops, treatment is compromised, further resistance can evolve, and resistant organisms can be transmitted to other people, leading to primary drug resistance that may fail to respond to standard therapy.

This suggests that resistant cells are not so unfit that drug sensitive cells completely out competed them, but that they struggle to proliferate when both types are present.

On the contrary, introducing them into settings where treatment compliance is not assured and where drug susceptibility testing is not available would likely contribute to even more resistant organisms.

Many infectious diseases that ravage developing countries today, notably HIV AIDS and tuberculosis, pose severe risks for the entire world, particularly in the light of emerging drug resistance.

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The Tuberculosis Front

As a result, compliance with TB drug treatment is particularly weak, paving the way for the emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) TB, which can no longer be treated by conventional therapeutic regimes.

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The Return of Tuberculosis

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