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Drug-resistant TB spreads in South Africa
Nov 23, 2006
By Yahoo News
More than 300 cases of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) have been confirmed across South Africa, the national health department said Thursday.
XDR-TB is defined by the World Health Organization as TB which is resistant to the main first-line TB drugs and to three or more of the six second-line drugs.
The patients "are in the hospitals, they are on treatment," the South African Press Association quoted the health department's head of TB, Dr. Lindiwe Mvusi, as saying.
Copyright 2006 Associated Press
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contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 24 November 2006
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