{"id":2919,"date":"2006-10-07T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T09:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2013-12-06T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T16:03:58","slug":"extensively-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-a-serious-wake-up-call-for-global-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/2919","title":{"rendered":"Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis: a serious wake-up call for global health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editorial, BMJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuberculosis outbreaks in the developed world are newsworthy. <\/strong>[1]<strong> However, in the developing world, where deaths from tuberculosis are common, it takes something exceptional for an outbreak to attract much attention. In response to a recent report at the 16th international AIDS conference<\/strong> [2]<strong> and to increasing South African media reports, the World Health Organization last week expressed concern about extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (also referred to as \u0093XDR tuberculosis\u0094).<\/strong> [3]<\/p>\n<p>Among 536 culture confirmed cases of tuberculosis at a rural hospital in South Africa, 41% were multidrug resistant, [2] defined as resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid (two key first line drugs). This is cause enough for concern as multidrug resistant tuberculosis has a worse outcome and its management is very difficult even in high resource settings. [4 ] Even more alarming was that 53 (24%) of the isolates from multidrug resistant tuberculosis fulfilled the definition of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial, BMJ Tuberculosis outbreaks in the developed world are newsworthy. [1] However, in the developing world, where deaths from tuberculosis are common, it takes something exceptional for an outbreak to attract much attention. In response to a recent report at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tb-coinfection","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}