Comments on: Extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) update

By: How can we overcome the barriers to treating drug-resistant TB? « MicrobiologyBytes

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:01:32 +0000

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By: Rich Grenyer » .ao?

Rich Grenyer » .ao? — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:57:03 +0000

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By: Dr. Sarman Singh

Dr. Sarman Singh — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:54:46 +0000

High rate of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Indian AIDS patients.
Reported in Nov. 2007 issue of the AIDS.

By: Dr.T.V.RaoMD, Jubilee Mission Medical College, Trichur India

Dr.T.V.RaoMD, Jubilee Mission Medical College, Trichur India — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:24:32 +0000

The new XMDR strains will create further confusion in the developing countries in particular to India we have huge population, a good number of persons suffer with tuberculosis and most of them are poor, and we have least facilities to diagnose tuberculosis except mass screening for detection of AFB from clinical samples,The Government of India funding to create centers with culture facilities and Diagnosis of drug resistance is need of the hour.Majority of the communicable diseases are treated by ill equipped private practitioners with least facilities for diagnosis, It is real threat somewhere we have to have scientific approach in detection of XMDR or the threat of untreatable tuberculosis is a reality

By: hotoffthepress

hotoffthepress — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:17:32 +0000

In the headline of a Bob McCarty Writes™ post May 3, I raised this question: Will Liberals View Terrorism & TB in Similar Ways? Now, it seems we're getting the opportunity to find out. It's going to get interesting.

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