Meanings of resistant tuberculosis in English

Background: Drug resistant tuberculosis poses a great challenge for tuberculosis control worldwide.

Purpose: To evaluate treatment results of multi drug resistant tuberculosis cases.

After childbirth, a mother was diagnosed with sputum smear-positive multidrug- resistant tuberculosis.

Killing an elementary school because you went outside with your totally drug- resistant tuberculosis.

So-called XDR-TB is a new and more lethal form of multiple drug- resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB.

Background: New diagnostic tools are urgently needed to interrupt the transmission of tuberculosis and multidrug- resistant tuberculosis.

These data may give a hint for development of new immunotherapeutic methods for multi-drug- resistant tuberculosis patients.

Background: Drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a growing concern worldwide.

Extreme drug resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, has killed at least 183 people in South Africa since September.

OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of and risk factors for fluoroquinolone- resistant tuberculosis in a large United States population.

These data suggest that control of the epidemic of drug- resistant tuberculosis requires an increased focus on interrupting transmission.

For instance, in 2008, an estimated 440,000 cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis emerged.

Screening of household contacts of patients with multidrug- resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a crucial active TB case-finding intervention.

Even more alarming is the increasing incidence of multidrug- resistant tuberculosis which presents a serious public health problem, particularly for HIV-infected patients.

The incremental benefit of a second MODS culture was minimal, particularly in patients at high risk for tuberculosis or multidrug- resistant tuberculosis.

When asked about the dangers of drug- resistant TB Tamaryn said: The numbers cases of multi-drug- resistant tuberculosis(MDR) TB are rising.