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Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis cases on the rise in Mumbai
Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 07:05 IST | Agency: DNA
Patients taking treatment from private docs worsens matters: Civic officials.
The tuberculosis scourge in Mumbai shows no sign of respite with number of multi-drug resistant cases rising across the city. Of 16,825 suspected patients tested for TB with a diagnotic tool, GeneXpert, 5,994 patients were detected with TB from January 2013 till January 27 this year. Latest data from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation states that 2,310 cases ? 38 per cent of ailing population ? are multi-drug resistant.
A senior civic TB officer said this means that patients don?t respond to first-line drugs of isoniazid and rifampicin. ?Many patients turn multi-drug resistant after seeking faulty treatment from private practioners over which we have little control. When they approach civic set-ups for help, their condition worsens considerably,? said the officer.
Further, Mumbai has upto 122 extensively resistant TB (XDR-TB). XDR-TB patients are resistant to MDR-TB drugs...
Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis cases on the rise in Mumbai
Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 07:05 IST | Agency: DNA
Patients taking treatment from private docs worsens matters: Civic officials.
The tuberculosis scourge in Mumbai shows no sign of respite with number of multi-drug resistant cases rising across the city. Of 16,825 suspected patients tested for TB with a diagnotic tool, GeneXpert, 5,994 patients were detected with TB from January 2013 till January 27 this year. Latest data from Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation states that 2,310 cases ? 38 per cent of ailing population ? are multi-drug resistant.
A senior civic TB officer said this means that patients don?t respond to first-line drugs of isoniazid and rifampicin. ?Many patients turn multi-drug resistant after seeking faulty treatment from private practioners over which we have little control. When they approach civic set-ups for help, their condition worsens considerably,? said the officer.
Further, Mumbai has upto 122 extensively resistant TB (XDR-TB). XDR-TB patients are resistant to MDR-TB drugs...