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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Survey reveals drug-resistant TB burden -GS Mudur

Survey reveals drug-resistant TB burden -GS Mudur

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published Published on Mar 25, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 25, 2018
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: The first nationwide survey for drug-resistant tuberculosis has found nearly 3 per cent of first-time patients and 12 per cent of those previously treated infected with multi-drug-resistant TB, lowering uncertainty over the scale of the problem.

The survey by the Union health ministry has also revealed wide variations in state-level patterns of drug-resistant TB, indicating that the national-level estimates might mask local epidemics that need to be addressed through special interventions.

The 25-state survey found that 87 of 3,064 (2.84 per cent) new patients and 220 of 1,893 (11.62 per cent) of previously treated patients infected with MDR-TB, resistant to both rifampicin and isoniazid, two of the four first-line drugs used to treat this bacterial infection.

The proportions of MDR-TB among the new patients ranged from 0.49 per cent in Bengal to 4.5 per cent in Bihar to 7.7 per cent in Maharashtra. Nationwide, the survey found resistance to at least one drug in 22 per cent of new patients and 36 per cent of previously treated patients.

Health experts view the findings as significant because most earlier estimates of the magnitude of MDR-TB in India were based on hospital-based surveys which, the experts say, do not necessarily portray the actual MDR-TB levels in local populations at either the level of the city or the state.

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The Telegraph, 25 March, 2018, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/survey-reveals-drug-resistant-tb-burden-218269


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