Superbug outwits multiple medications, seen as death sentence.
March 26, 2006 (Press Release) --
Health officials said Thursday they are seeing what appears to be a disturbing increase around the world in tuberculosis infections resistant to both the first- and second-line antibiotics used against TB.
"It's basically a death sentence. If people are failing first- and second-line drugs and we don't have in the pipeline a new drug for immediate use, that's a crisis," said Dr. Marcos Espinale, executive secretary of the World Health Organization's Stop TB Partnership.
The CDC and WHO surveyed a network of 25 tuberculosis laboratories on six continents from 2000 to 2004 and found that one in 50 TB cases around the world is resistant not only to the usual first-choice TB treatments, but also to many medications that represent the second line of defense.
Source: http://www.msn.com/
"It's basically a death sentence. If people are failing first- and second-line drugs and we don't have in the pipeline a new drug for immediate use, that's a crisis," said Dr. Marcos Espinale, executive secretary of the World Health Organization's Stop TB Partnership.
The CDC and WHO surveyed a network of 25 tuberculosis laboratories on six continents from 2000 to 2004 and found that one in 50 TB cases around the world is resistant not only to the usual first-choice TB treatments, but also to many medications that represent the second line of defense.
Source: http://www.msn.com/
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