This is particularly important given the emergence of multi-drug resistant strains of the disease.
Treating patients with drug resistant TB is beyond the pocket of many developing countries.
Patients in isolation rooms are more often than not sick from a multi drug resistant organism (MDRO).
The scientists said their tests showed that the parasite could evolve and become drug resistant relatively rapidly.
They then develop resistance to several medications, thus infecting their communities with multi-drug resistant strains of TB.
But it's a potential public health catastrophe with the new strain called XDR-TB, for extensively drug resistant tuberculosis.
Daniels also didn't take a high-powered antibiotic when he was supposed to, leading to his becoming "extensively" drug resistant.
Doctors in Mumbai said 12 patients had a "totally drug resistant" form of the infection, and three have died.
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Despite the decline in regular TB, drug resistant strains of the disease have worsened and spread here and globally.
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Almost half of patients with the multi-drug resistant form of the disease die.
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Partially drug-resistant TB can now found in countries across the world, and "multi-drug resistant" strains affect countries such as Russia and China.
Another aspect in the resurgence of the disease is the development of drug resistant strains which now affect up to 50 million people.
The multi drug resistant strains are often fatal and have mortality rates that are comparable with those which existed before the development of antibiotics.
There hasn't been a nationwide survey of drug resistance, but India and the WHO say 2% to 3% of India's TB patients are drug resistant.
There is a drug resistant bacterial strain, called 19A, that became more prevalent as it filled the niche left by the bacteria vanquished by Prevnar.
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The report also highlighted problems treating people with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
But they also discovered that the emergence of drug resistant malaria in Africa in the 1970s was linked to the original outbreak in south-east Asia, 20 years previously.
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When doctors carried out throat swabs from 82 other children at the centre, they found that ten were carrying the same multi-drug resistant strain of bacteria found in the two ill children.
Overall, 6.6% of 4, 400 newly diagnosed TB patients in the study, conducted at 18 clinics nationwide, were found to be drug resistant, an officer of the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, a nonprofit conducting the study for the Indian government, said at a private presentation last week.
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An even more stubborn version, resistant to more antibiotics, is called extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and has been detected in 84 countries.
Burma's highly mobile migrant population may already be spreading the drug-resistant strain around the world.
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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.
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