Burma's highly mobile migrant population may already be spreading the drug-resistant strain around the world.
He has extensively drug-resistant TB and is being held in an Arizona hospital under court order.
The international team found three distinct groups of drug-resistant parasites present in the area.
The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing one new medication, bedaquiline, to treat drug-resistant TB.
The Journal also showed that the WHO's own policies inadvertently helped drug-resistant TB to flourish.
The World Health Organization has found that three-fifths of HAIs are caused by drug-resistant bacteria.
And between 2009 and 2011, drug-resistant TB cases doubled in the 27 most-affected countries.
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In 2010, it caused 1.4m deaths, 8.8 million new infections and 450 thousand drug-resistant TB cases.
About one quarter of previously untreated TB patients were infected with the multi-drug-resistant TB.
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In a 2003 study, the researchers reported 30% of their newly diagnosed patients were multi-drug-resistant.
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Her program has treated more than 1, 500 drug-resistant patients so far this year, she said.
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One of the perils of non-compliance is the development of drug-resistant strains of HIV.
Big hospitals are breeding grounds for drug-resistant staph, pseudomonas and C. diff bacteria.
Concern over drug-resistant strains of TB is growing, with similar 'incurable' TB emerging in Italy and Iran.
In India and China, fewer than 10 percent of drug-resistant cases were confirmed by diagnosis in 2011.
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Drug-resistant strains of everything from tuberculosis to staphylococcus are killing tens of thousands of patients every year.
Arranging care for drug-resistant patients is complicated, said Ed Zuroweste, the Migrant Clinicians Network's chief medical officer.
The official name is MRSA, M-R-S-A - a highly drug-resistant staph infection that's challenged researchers for most of this decade.
But addicts often fail to stick to the strict drug regime, which can lead to drug-resistant strains.
Meanwhile, Roche spinoff Basilea, developing a successor to Rocephin, touts its new drug, ceftobiprole, against drug-resistant staph infections.
In theory, disease could also spread if the animal microbes pass their drug-resistant genes to human bacterial strains.
Last year New Delhi made a historic policy reversal, scaling up a new strategy for treating drug-resistant patients.
Drug-resistant bacteria are a growing and deadly problem--and the market for medicines to kill them is quickly increasing.
Recent examples: molecules to target drug-resistant bacteria and a kinase inhibitor to zap the enzyme responsible for tumor growth.
Drug-resistant pandemics have been a staple of local news hysteria since the H1N1 virus swept the globe in 2009.
Dr. Petersen saw the same drug-resistant infection show up in U.S. soldiers, especially those injured by improvised roadside bombs.
This indicates that existing antibiotics may be more effective against drug-resistant infections if used in combination with manuka honey.
Health officials are worried because the drug-resistant strain is so hard to diagnose.
Myanmar has one of the world's highest rates of tuberculosis and drug-resistant forms of both tuberculosis and malaria are spreading.
Last week brought one of the more exciting results of that collaboration: an anti-microbial hydrogel that eradicates drug-resistant bacteria.
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