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Drug-resistant TB now at record levels, says WHO

Although some regions within the former Soviet Union are beginning to stem epidemics of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, 440,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB are estimated

Published
19 March 2010
By
Keith Alcorn
Tuberculosis and HIV
Over a third of TB cases in UK prisons are drug-resistant

Many UK prisoners with tuberculosis have a drug-resistant form of the disease, according to a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Published
18 March 2010
By
Michael Carter
Tuberculosis and HIV
High prevalence of drug-resistant TB amongst HIV patients in South Africa

There is a high prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis amongst patients with HIV in South Africa, investigators report in the April 1st edition of Clinical Infectious

Published
17 March 2010
By
Michael Carter
Tuberculosis and HIV
XDR TB emerging despite good adherence, due to sub-optimal treatment and bad infection control

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is most likely emerging as a result of delays in diagnosis, sub-optimal treatment and poor infection control, not failures in patient adherence,

Published
10 February 2010
By
Keith Alcorn
Tuberculosis and HIV
Household contact tracing reveals extensive community spread of MDR and XDR TB

Approximately half of adult household contacts of drug resistant TB cases had resistance profiles that differed from the index case of TB, according to a

Published
08 January 2010
By
Lois Eldred
Drug-resistant TB
HIV and TB in Practice

This articles looks at the issue of isoniazid resistance in isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) and TB programmes.

Published
21 May 2009
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB treatment
Childhood TB (part 3): treatment and prevention

This is the third part of Childhood TB covering treatment and prevention including antiretroviral treatment for children co-infected.

Published
22 December 2008
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB treatment
Scaling up laboratory capacity for the coming storm of XDR-TB, and why the HIV treating community must get involved now

Review of issues in monitoring TB drug sensitivity in resource-limited settings, and the need to scale up laboratory capacity in order to detect MDR and

Published
28 November 2006
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
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