Open AccessMDRTB Then, XMDRTB Now and Then ……… Totally
Author(s) -
Ajaz Nabi Koul
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of medical sciences/journal of medical sciences (srinagar. online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-063X
pISSN - 0972-110X
DOI - 10.33883/jms.v19i1.275
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , health care , intensive care medicine , surgery , pathology , economic growth , economics
Multi drug resistant tuberculosis has come up as a separate disease meriting different diagnostic and therapeutic options from conventional tuberculosis. Worldwide there has been considerable increase in MDRTB cases to 60,000 and less than 5% of them get management as desired by various infectious disease bodies. Another entity titled XMDRTB has of late assumed significant proportion of tuberculosis cases which is steaming into a new health related inferno. Some sporadic cases of tuberculosis have come up which are completely resistant to all anti-tubercular drugs, that should be an area of concern for all healthcare givers. JMS 2016; 19(1):12-17