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Totally Drug-Resistant TB may be a Misnomer

Totally Drug-Resistant TB may be a Misnomer

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Jan 19, 2012
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The world’s press earlier this week announced the news that a strain of tuberculosis known as TDR-TB has emerged in India that is resistant to all drugs, raising the specter of rising numbers of TB deaths. However, say researchers, it is actually an advanced stage of drug-resistant TB, which was called totally drug-resistant only for lack of a better te…

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