"Multidrug-resistant TB is a major global public health problem, affecting over 400,000 people each year. It is associated with significantly poorer outcomes than drug-susceptible TB," said ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected ...

Tuberculosis remains one of the top infectious disease killers worldwide, a challenge amplified by drug-resistant forms of the disease. Now, in a major step forward, an international clinical trial ...

Child MDR-TB is also more common in countries with a high burden of drug-resistant TB among adults, for example, parts of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and India, Dr. Dubey highlighted.

Three all-oral 9-month treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis were found to be noninferior to standard treatment. Just two in five people with resistant TB receive treatment for the infection.

According to the officials, the new regimen, called BPaL/BPaLM, includes medications bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, and moxifloxacin and will be given to multi-drug-resistant TB patients The ...

There has been a slight rise in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) cases in Kozhikode district over the years. It is one of the focus areas of the ongoing 100-day TB eradication campaign ...