drug resistant tuberculosis

LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization says the highest levels ever of drug-resistant tuberculosis have been found in Russia and Moldova....

Doctors in India are reporting disturbing news — 12 patients with “totally drug-resistant” tuberculosis.

The patients diagnosed with the lung disease have been treated with conventional medications to no avail, The Associated Press reports.

Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease....

India reports new TB strain resistant to all drugs Associated Press

(University of Texas at Austin) Developing a simple, paper-based test for drug-resistant tuberculosis is the goal of a University of Texas at Austin chemist, whose project just received a $1.6 million point-of-care diagnostics grant through Grand Challenges in Global Health, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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The World Health Organisation draws up a plan to try to tackle the "alarming" problem of drug-resistant tuberculosis in 53 European countries.

The percentage of tuberculosis cases around the world resistant to two standard drugs remains low -- about 4 percent -- but is three to six times higher in the vast area that once encompassed the Soviet Union, according to a report released this week by the World Health Organization.

LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization says it doesn't have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis....

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa is trying a new approach to controlling drug-resistant tuberculosis by treating people at home rather than in isolation hospitals....