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But how can we not fear the creation of a totally drug-resistant strain of a disease that is already among the world's top killers?
Kolleen Bouchane: Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Kolleen Bouchane 2012
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We have long been concerned about drug-resistant tuberculosis and in recent years, more concerned about the extremely drug resistant tuberculosis XDR-TB.
Kolleen Bouchane: Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Kolleen Bouchane 2012
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Now we are talking about totally drug-resistant tuberculosis TDR-TB.
Kolleen Bouchane: Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Kolleen Bouchane 2012
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Now we are talking about totally drug-resistant tuberculosis TDR-TB.
Kolleen Bouchane: Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Kolleen Bouchane 2012
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In fact just this week, the World Health Organization announced that lethal strains of extensively drug-resistant, airborne tuberculosis are spreading across Europe and will kill thousands unless halted.
Kolleen Bouchane: Contagion -- the Stuff of Thrillers? Kolleen Bouchane 2011
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In a series of experiments with mice, he and his colleagues found that drug-resistant patients actually had elevated not lower levels of androgen receptors.
Gaining on Prostate Cancer Ron Winslow 2012
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If we don't solve this soon, we could end up with so much drug-resistant tuberculosis that it will be like being back in the Victorian age when there were no good treatments, she said.
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Only about 32 percent of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Western Europe are properly treated; many stop taking their medicines before the treatment course is up, allowing the bug to develop resistance.
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"Nobody in Europe is 100 percent protected from drug-resistant tuberculosis," said Ogtay Gozalov, a medical officer at the World Health Organization.
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Of the 12 cases of totally drug-resistant TB in India -- three are already dead.
Kolleen Bouchane: Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Kolleen Bouchane 2012
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