
Drug-resistant tuberculosis - why you should be worried
Drug-resistant tuberculosis - why you should be worried
Earlier termed totally drug resistant TB (TDR TB) but later renamed XXDR TB, the term refers to an extremely drug resistant TB strain that is impervious to all the first and second line drugs used in tuberculosis treatment. This resilience makes it very hard to treat and contain it.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis - why you should be worried

Here's all you need to know about the newest TB drug in the market.

Was it 'premature' to declare the cases as Totally drug-resistant TB? Read and find out!
Mumbai might be on the brink of drug-resistant TB epidemic

World Tubeculosis Day 2014: Progress in diagnosing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Children with drug-resistant tuberculosis has experts worried

'Electronic Nose' that can sniff tuberculosis

BMC's plans to fight tuberculosis in Mumbai

World Tuberculosis Day 2013: How India's faring in the battle against TB
Notification of TB cases needs to be made strict: Experts
Can Vitamin C be the cure for tuberculosis?
No proposal to launch Tb drug Bedaquiline: Azad
Mumbai tuberculosis: Deaths soar at Sewri hospital, BMC claims there's no XXDR-TB in the city
World Tuberculosis Day 2013: Extremely drug resistant TB rearing its head in India
New TB drugs being tested in India: Ghulam Nabi Azad
Engineered peptide can kill high resistant bugs

Is Mumbai on the brink of a deadly tuberculosis epidemic?
BMC's anti-tuberculosis drive lauded

After swine flu, Pune hit by drug-resistant tuberculosis

Concession for swine flu (H1N1) victims: Pune Municipal Corporation

World Tuberculosis Day 2012: Govt enlist chemists to check irrational drug use in the fight against TB

World Tuberculosis Day 2012: Urgent measures needed to control TB
Tuberculosis responsible for 5 lakh deaths in South East Asia every year: WHO

India has highest number of MDR-TB cases in South East Asia: WHO (World Tuberculosis Day)

Drug-resistant tuberculosis - why you should be worried

Here's all you need to know about the newest TB drug in the market.

Was it 'premature' to declare the cases as Totally drug-resistant TB? Read and find out!
Mumbai might be on the brink of drug-resistant TB epidemic

World Tubeculosis Day 2014: Progress in diagnosing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Children with drug-resistant tuberculosis has experts worried

'Electronic Nose' that can sniff tuberculosis

BMC's plans to fight tuberculosis in Mumbai

World Tuberculosis Day 2013: How India's faring in the battle against TB
Notification of TB cases needs to be made strict: Experts
Can Vitamin C be the cure for tuberculosis?
No proposal to launch Tb drug Bedaquiline: Azad
Mumbai tuberculosis: Deaths soar at Sewri hospital, BMC claims there's no XXDR-TB in the city
World Tuberculosis Day 2013: Extremely drug resistant TB rearing its head in India
New TB drugs being tested in India: Ghulam Nabi Azad
Engineered peptide can kill high resistant bugs

Is Mumbai on the brink of a deadly tuberculosis epidemic?
BMC's anti-tuberculosis drive lauded

After swine flu, Pune hit by drug-resistant tuberculosis

Concession for swine flu (H1N1) victims: Pune Municipal Corporation

World Tuberculosis Day 2012: Govt enlist chemists to check irrational drug use in the fight against TB

World Tuberculosis Day 2012: Urgent measures needed to control TB
Tuberculosis responsible for 5 lakh deaths in South East Asia every year: WHO

India has highest number of MDR-TB cases in South East Asia: WHO (World Tuberculosis Day)