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Tuberculosis
Research from P.L. Lu and co-researchers in the area of tuberculosis published
July 22nd, 2008
"Multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis has emerged as a major public health problem worldwide. However, knowledge of the regional complete susceptibility to second-line drugs is rare, which impedes development of a global strategy of tuberculosis control," scientists writing in the Journal of Chemotherapy report. "Presently, we determined the susceptibility of 125 isolates from southern Taiwan to 5 first-line and 12 second-line antituberculosis drugs. Except for a lower resistance to ethionamide (9.6% of isolates), more than 20% of the isolates were resistant to second-line drugs (kanamycin, 29.6%; p-aminosalicyclic acid, 71.2%; cycloserine, 24.8%; capreomycin,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-22)
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