Tuberculosis levels ten times higher in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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MDR-TB is TB that is resistant to the two medicines most commonly used to treat it, Isoniazid and Rifampicin. Without the correct drugs MDR-TB is untreatable and in most cases fatal. Though curing 'normal' TB is cheap and effective a six month course of medicines costs US$ 10 treating drug resistant TB is a hundred times more expensive. Even then a cure is not guaranteed. With no effective vaccine, everyone is vulnerable to infection simply by breathing in a droplet carrying a virulent drug resistant strain.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Releve epidemiologique hebdomadaire
دوره 79 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004