New Health News: Tough TB Responds to Drug Treatment

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Tough TB Responds to Drug Treatment

An antibiotic used to treat severe infections shows promise against a very resistant and deadly form of tuberculosis. XDR-TB is resistant to at least four of the drugs used most often against the disease.


 Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis ? or XDR-TB ? is still considered rare, although cases have been reported in nearly 80 countries. Health officials believe the number of XDR-TB cases is underreported because there?s no specific test for it.

 It can be cured, but the odds against ...

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