Gert van der Hoek
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Drug-Evading Tuberculosis Shows Rising Superbug Threat in China
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Almost half of tuberculosis patients with a strain resistant to two or more drugs hadn?t had the disease before, according to a study at a Chinese hospital.
Of 100 multidrug-resistant TB cases studied at Shandong Provincial Tuberculosis Hospital, 45 weren?t previously treated for the lung infection, doctors at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention found. The finding, published in the October edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, indicates ?substantial? transmission of the deadly superbug, the authors said.
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Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Almost half of tuberculosis patients with a strain resistant to two or more drugs hadn?t had the disease before, according to a study at a Chinese hospital.
Of 100 multidrug-resistant TB cases studied at Shandong Provincial Tuberculosis Hospital, 45 weren?t previously treated for the lung infection, doctors at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention found. The finding, published in the October edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, indicates ?substantial? transmission of the deadly superbug, the authors said.
Read more - Businessweek