Cases of totally drug-resistant TB reported in India

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Jan 10 2012

"For the first time in India, 12 people have been detected with totally drug-resistant lung tuberculosis (TDR-TB), a condition in which patients do not respond to any TB medication" and for which the mortality rate is 100 percent, the Hindustan Times reports. "Doctors treating these patients say the absolute resistance is a result of the patients being prescribed wrong antibiotics," the newspaper reports (1/7). "While Iran first reported TDR-TB cases three years ago, India seems to be only the second country to report this deadly form of the disease," the Times of India notes (Iyer, 1/7).

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