Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of worldwide public-health concern. The development of resistance to an increasing number of second-line drugs and those used to treat multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB is rapidly becoming an emergency that could hinder the prevention and treatment of TB globally. This study describes the resistance profile of MDR and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB with a hospital...

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Emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis like multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and totally drug resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB) has created a new challenge to fight against these bad bugs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Repurposing and revival of the drugs are the new trends/options to combat these worsen situations of tuberculosis in t...

The WHO European Region has the highest proportion of multidrugand extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) patients in the world. In response to this alarming problem, the Consolidated Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Multidrugand Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the WHO European Region, 2011–2015, was developed for all 53 Member States and endorsed at the sixty-first sess...