Sentences with phrase «effective tuberculosis drug»
To counter the threat, many researchers have been trying to pump up the potency of rifamycin, the most effective tuberculosis drug.
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MDR - TB Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, defined as strains that resist at least two of the most effective anti-tubercular drugs.
We must strengthen infection control measures, focus on households, health centres, and communities to prevent tuberculosis spreading from person to person, and develop more effective diagnostic tests to rapidly and accurately detect drug resistance.»
Rifampicin and related drugs are important antibiotics, the key to an effective «drug cocktail» that already takes about six months of treatment to cure tuberculosis, even if everything goes well.
«I hope the result will be drugs that are more effective against tuberculosis and offer a faster route to a cure with fewer side effects.»
Treatment success rate of drug - resistant tuberculosis in HIV - positive patients is low and requires more effective regimen using new drugs compatible with antiretroviral therapy.
Her work focuses on the discovery of new drugs that are effective at curing drug - sensitive and drug - resistant tuberculosis with the added goal of shortening the time it takes to cure disease.