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  • initialism pathology multiple drug resistant tuberculosis

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Examples

  • The Geneva-based WHO has warned that alarm bells should be ringing worldwide because of the emerging threat posed by MDR-TB, which is able to fend off two longstanding frontline tuberculosis drugs.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Since it was first discovered in 1994, 114 countries have reported outbreaks of MDR-TB, a deadly form of tuberculosis that is resistant to first line medication.

    Kolleen Bouchane: Contagion -- the Stuff of Thrillers? Kolleen Bouchane 2011

  • India and China have the largest numbers of tuberculosis cases, and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been found in nearly every country, with XDR-TB in at least 57 countries.

    The Scourge of TB 2010

  • A major hurdle in treating MDR-TB and XDR-TB is that the course lasts up to two years and is 200 to 1,000 times more expensive than regular TB drugs.

    The Scourge of TB 2010

  • In the past 10 years an estimated five million people became sick with MDR-TB and 1.5 million have died.

    Kolleen Bouchane: Contagion -- the Stuff of Thrillers? Kolleen Bouchane 2011

  • The countries hardest hit by MDR-TB are also two of the world's biggest trading partners -- India and China.

    Kolleen Bouchane: Contagion -- the Stuff of Thrillers? Kolleen Bouchane 2011

  • A major hurdle in treating MDR-TB and XDR-TB is that the course lasts up to two years and is 200 to 1,000 times more expensive than regular TB drugs.

    The Scourge of TB 2010

  • But the costs, in lives and resources of TB and MDR-TB, are far greater than even Steven Soderbergh could imagine.

    Kolleen Bouchane: Contagion -- the Stuff of Thrillers? Kolleen Bouchane 2011

  • India and China have the largest numbers of tuberculosis cases, and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been found in nearly every country, with XDR-TB in at least 57 countries.

    The Scourge of TB 2010

  • It's the story of multidrug resistant tuberculosis MDR-TB.

    Kolleen Bouchane: Contagion -- the Stuff of Thrillers? Kolleen Bouchane 2011

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