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Category: XDR-TB

Posted on August 19, 2019

Pretomanid: XDR-TB may soon become easily treatable

Though the total number of people with XDR-TB and treatment intolerant or non-responsive MDR-TB who will require the new anti-TB drug Pretomanid may not be high, these are people who…

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Posted on August 16, 2019August 18, 2019

Explainer: What makes the new drug-resistant TB medicine Pretomanid promising

When used in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid, the newly approved pretomanid drug for MDR-TB and XDR-TB had an overall treatment success rate of about 90%. Besides better effectiveness, the…

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Posted on July 8, 2017July 8, 2017

IISc researchers’ quest to make a common antibiotic more effective against TB

Bacteria develop resistance against a drug only when they are exposed to it or when the drug is misused. But now, a team of researchers from India has found whether…

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Posted on May 12, 2017May 12, 2017

Breaking the drug-resistant TB transmission cycle important

Nearly two months after the Health Ministry set a highly ambitious target of working towards elimination of tuberculosis by 2025, a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases indicates that India’s TB…

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Posted on January 17, 2016June 11, 2016

Working towards personalised TB treatment

Three major global research centres in India will receive funding coming out of collaboration between the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Department for Biotechnology (DBT), India. The Department…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

Editorial: An ominous situation

That the medicine chest is bereft of effective new drugs to fight the extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) strain has once again become frighteningly clear. According to a study published recently…

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Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

‘Long-term outcomes in South African patients with XDR-TB poor’

Long-term outcomes in South African patients who have extremely-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) are “poor” immaterial of HIV status, notes a paper published on January 17 in The Lancet . Despite…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

TB: ‘There is a clearly higher risk of mortality in children of 0-4 years’

With 8.6 million people across the world developing tuberculosis in 2012 and nearly 1.3 million succumbing to the disease, and with the number of people with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB)…

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