Meanings of extensively drug-resistant in English

South African geneticists have decoded the genome of an extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis strain.

Multidrug- or extensively drug-resistant bacteria were identified at some point in half the patients.

Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) represent a major threat to the control of the disease worldwide.

Background: Tracer antibiotic algorithms using administrative data were investigated to estimate mortality attributable to extensively drug-resistant gram-negative infections (GNIs).

Background: Post-neurosurgical intracranial infections caused by multidrug-resistant or extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii are difficult to treat and associated with high mortality.

A widespread epidemic of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is occurring in South Africa, where cases have increased substantially since 2002.

The new regimen is expected to cost far less than the other, longer treatments for extensively drug-resistant TB, according to the TB Alliance.

Using conventional diagnostics, it took the CDC four months, by Speaker's account, to definitively identify his particular strain as extensively drug-resistant, or XDR, TB.

XDR-TB Genome Uncoded, Could Provide Ammo in War Against Nightmare Disease South African geneticists have decoded the genome of an extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis strain.

We describe its successful use as rescue therapy, combined with surgical debridement, to treat a patient with osteomyelitis due to extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.

After identifying a sudden increase in extensively drug-resistant TB, false-positive mycobacterial culture tests were suspected, and we contacted the supranational reference center for molecular typing.

Objectives: The development and transmission of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) constitutes a serious threat to the effective control of TB in several countries.

Although drugs and a TB vaccine are available, TB eradication faces the challenges of increasing occurrences of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) strains.

Tuberculosis kills another 1.5 million, and the evolution of extensively drug-resistant strains has raised the possibility of widespread, highly-lethal outbreaks in the developed world.

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains of the contagious respiratory ailment have emerged worldwide.

Extensively drug-resistant TB was diagnosed in 1 staff member.