The Rise of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

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MDR TB was inversely associated with successful treatments.

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

There were also cases of extreme MDR TB, soon called XDR TB, which resisted even the back up medicines.

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

More difficult to treat with conservative treatment methods such as electrodessiccation and curettage, or with curettage alone.

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

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

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

For the past six years, a global effort (called DOTS Plus) to treat people with MDR TB under strict conditions has been underway, reaching thousands with previously untreatable TB.

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We found that populations with at least 10 MDR TB showed a notable reduction in successful outcomes.

An unfortunate consequence of treating MDR TB with second line drugs, however, is the inevitable emergence of further drug resistance. If the same factors that produce MDR TB remain in play, then MDR TB becomes XDR TB.

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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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analyzing immigrants by specific country of origin, timing of immigration, and previous treatment can help define the risk of MDR TB associated with immigrants

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Photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR TB, a drug resistant strain of tuberculosis that's touching off a global medical crisis. Learn how to help at http www.xdrtb.org

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I wanted to become a doctor like Paul Farmer or Rick Hodes, these kind of fearless men who go into places like Haiti or Ethiopia and work with AIDS patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis, or with children with disfiguring cancers.

The new GeneXpert test diagnoses not only TB, but also, in the same step, MDR TB, which means that it can rapidly direct adequate treatment and prevent infection of contacts a true breakthrough.

A number of other drugs some new and some repurposed are currently in the last stage of clinical trials, and one new drug has been approved by US regulators for treatment of MDR TB even before such trials have been completed.

Enter XDR TB.

While treating MDR TB remains possible, doing so is arduous, with a treatment time of roughly two years, using drugs that are neither as efficient nor as benign as canonical drugs and at a cost that rises by a factor of 10 100.

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