Researchers analyzed global trends in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among children and adolescents, revealing ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected ...

In fighting a disease, there are right ways and wrong ways to do things, and the global war on tuberculosis ... victory over multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB during the last 20 years in New York ...

Together, the two studies demonstrated that levofloxacin could stop the risk of MDR-TB among family and other household members, curtailing the global impact of this dangerous pathogen.

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a strain of the TB disease ... Perhaps it was because TB-affected populations lived largely in the global south. Physicians were taught to advise ...