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  2. Management of tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    The physician may then, after extensive investigation has excluded all other diseases, resort to a trial of TB treatment. [130] The regimen used is HEZ for a minimum of three weeks; RMP and STM are omitted from the regimen because they are broad spectrum antibiotics, whereas the other three first-line drugs treat only mycobacterial infection.

  3. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Treatment of MDR-TB requires treatment with second-line drugs, usually four or more anti-TB drugs for a minimum of 6 months, and possibly extending for 18–24 months if rifampin resistance has been identified in the specific strain of TB with which the patient has been infected. [9] Under ideal program conditions, MDR-TB cure rates can ...

  4. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    A 2008 study in the Tomsk oblast of Russia, reported that 14 out of 29 (48.3%) patients with XDR-TB successfully completed treatment. [16] In 2018, the WHO reported that the treatment success rate for XDR-TB was 34% for the 2015 cohort, compared to 55% for MDR/RR-TB (2015 cohort), 77% for HIV-associated TB (2016 cohort), and 82% for TB (2016 ...

  5. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Totally drug-resistant TB is resistant to all currently used drugs. [156] It was first observed in 2003 in Italy, [157] but not widely reported until 2012, [156] [158] and has also been found in Iran and India. [159] There is some efficacy for linezolid to treat those with XDR-TB but side effects and discontinuation of medications were common.

  6. Isoniazid - Wikipedia

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    Isoniazid, also known as isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INH), is an antibiotic used for the treatment of tuberculosis. [4] For active tuberculosis, it is often used together with rifampicin, pyrazinamide, and either streptomycin or ethambutol. [5] For latent tuberculosis, it is often used alone. [4]

  7. Streptomycin - Wikipedia

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    Streptomycin is an antibiotic medication used to treat a number of bacterial infections, [3] including tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex, endocarditis, brucellosis, Burkholderia infection, plague, tularemia, and rat bite fever. [3] For active tuberculosis it is often given together with isoniazid, rifampicin, and pyrazinamide. [4]

  8. Directly observed treatment, short-course - Wikipedia

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    Whereas previously less than 2% of infectious TB patients were being detected and cured, with DOTS treatment services in 1990 approximately 60% have been benefitted from this care. Since 1995, 41 million people have been successfully treated and up to 6 million lives saved through DOTS and the Stop TB Strategy. 5.8 million TB cases were ...

  9. Totally drug-resistant tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    TDR-TB has been identified in three countries; India, Iran, and Italy. The term was first presented in 2006, in which it showed that TB was resistant to many second line drugs and possibly all the medicines used to treat the disease. Lack of testing made it unclear which drugs the TDR-TB were resistant to.

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