Researchers analyzed global trends in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among children and adolescents, revealing ...

Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis arises from the man-made selection of mutants that result from spontaneous chromosomal alterations. Preventing the development of drug-resistant TB ...

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) has been described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a ‘public health crisis’. In 2015, there were an estimated 480,000 new cases of MDR TB ...

Infections by multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs) are a global health threat with a worrying increasing trend. In fragile ...

The goal was to improve treatment for patients with tuberculosis resistant to rifampin. The WHO estimates that some 410,000 people become sick with rifampin-resistant TB each year, including people ...

But multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis, called MDR-TB, are becoming extremely dangerous and require more expensive and painful drugs to cure. A promising program in Lima, Peru ...

Dr. Vivek Kumar Verma, Principal Consultant - Pulmonology, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Dehradun said, "The term Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) is used when the bacteria get ...

The trial found that levofloxacin reduced the risk of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in adults and adolescents by 45 percent. The trial findings were combined with a second trial ...

The endTB trial is one of four recent randomized controlled trials testing new, shorter, and less toxic treatment regimens ...