Last year, Mumbai's government program diagnosed and treated about 30 new patients with multi-drug-resistance a month.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
Still, for Mumbai to stem its drug-resistance epidemic, "a massive infusion of resources" is needed, said Dr. Dewan.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
The WHO and India currently estimate India has about 100, 000 of the 650, 000 people in the world with multi-drug-resistance.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
But in the absence of a nationwide survey, the data offered a first look at what India's drug-resistance rates might be.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
It is curable in almost all who are treated, but the rate of recovery from multi-drug-resistance is far lower, although studies vary widely.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
The evidence of a drug-resistance epidemic in Mumbai has been growing.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
Some cancers, though, are armored against taxanes: Their cell membranes carry a multiple-drug-resistance pump that identifies taxanes as a threat and pumps them out before they can infiltrate the cell.
Separately, India plans to begin its first ever national survey during the next few months to determine the rate of multi-drug-resistance nationwide, according to Prahlad Kumar, director of the National Tuberculosis Institute, a government research and training center in Bangalore.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
The latest study was carried out for the Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance, which was set up in 1994.
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The WHO has been compiling reports of drug resistance since the mid-1990s, but it relied on countries to do the surveillance.
WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment
Last year it said it would scale up its treatment of drug-resistant TB and eventually test all TB patients for resistance at their initial diagnosis.
In the mid-1990s drug firms touted gene sequencing as the solution to the resistance problem.
But Mr Bush overcame stiffer resistance on other issues, such as prescription-drug benefits.
It is known to confer cross-resistance to a class of related antibiotics, including the human drug called vancomycin.
They then develop resistance to several medications, thus infecting their communities with multi-drug resistant strains of TB.
The rampant overuse bred ever stronger resistance by wiping out weaker strains that otherwise might compete with the drug- resistant variants, leaving only the balkiest bugs to take hold.
Prof Ashworth described it as a "bit like the game whack-a-mole" with a new method of resistance popping up every time a drug kicks a cancer down.
They found that resistance to this drug could be traced back to the 1950s and to specific events in south-east Asia, South America and Papua New Guinea.
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