Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) Raises Challenges in TB Control in Taiwan

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) raises challenges in TB control in Taiwan.

Since last year, Mr Lee, a 56-year-old tuberculosis (TB) patient, has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life. Prior to that, he had escaped from hospital before the end of his multiple drug-resistant TB treatment, and had strongly expressed unwillingness to return to hospital for treatment. Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced his name, and he became a wan...

Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB): A potential threat

Emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has been reported by more than 55 countries. XDR-TB is considered as untreatable and highly fatal disease. In developing countries like India, number of cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and XDR-TB are increasing. Emergence of resistance to Isoniazid and Rifampicin, the two most effective and well tolerated agents, ...

Multi-Drug/Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (Mdr/Xdr-Tb): Renewed Global Battle Against Tuberculosis?

Prevalence of Pre-Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Pre XDR-TB) and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) among Pulmonary Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at a Tertiary Care Center in Mumbai

Background: India is a high burden country for Tuberculosis (TB). As per the World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, 24000 cases of Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) TB were diagnosed in India in 2014. MDR-TB patients consist of a heterogeneous cohort and management has its challenges. Aims and objectives: We studied the prevalence of PreExtensively Drug Resistant TB (Pre XDR-TB) and Extensively D...

Control of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB): A Root Cause Analysis.

The threat of global infectious agents has the potential to cripple national and global economies, as the outbreaks of SARS, Avian Flu, H1N1, and XDR-TB have demonstrated. This article offers a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of one public health case study - the Speaker case of XDR-TB - pinpointing the underlying causal relationships associated with this global health incident and proposing recommen...