Sentences with phrase «resistant tuberculosis cases»

The study authors propose that increased spread from person to person will be responsible for the growing number of drug - resistant tuberculosis cases.

Our findings show that drug - resistant tuberculosis cases in these countries are expected to rise over the next two decades, and that fewer cases over time will be caused by acquired drug resistance during tuberculosis treatment.

It uses data from WHO and surveys estimating the number of drug - resistant tuberculosis cases to predict how many cases of multidrug - resistant and extensively drug - resistant tuberculosis would develop during 2000 and 2040.

Nearly 40 % of all drug - resistant tuberculosis cases occur in Russia, India, the Philippines, and South Africa — accounting for more than 230000 cases of drug - resistant disease in 2015.

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PaMZ could wipe out several resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis — the cause of most cases of TB — which have been spreading through South Africa, India and the countries that made up the former Soviet Union.

According to the World Health Organization, antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest public health threats we face today; there were about 480,000 new cases of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis in 2013.

Cases of drug - resistant tuberculosis are forecasted to increase in the four high burden countries (India, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa) between 2000 and 2040, with the upturn likely to be a result of increased transmission of drug - resistant tuberculosis between people, rather than by strains acquiring resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Even if we prevent new drug - resistant infections, there are enough current cases to keep the epidemic going, and drug - resistant tuberculosis will continue to be an increasingly dangerous threat so long as resistant strains spread through the air from one person to another,» says Dr Sharma.

In addition, almost one in ten cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in each of the four countries were expected to be extensively drug - resistant by 2040 (9 % in Russia and the Philippines, 8.9 % in India, and 8.5 % in South Africa), compared with around 1 % in 2000 (1.3 % in Russia, 1.6 % in the Philippines, 0.9 % in India, and 0.4 % in South Africa).

The model estimates that cases of both forms of drug - resistant disease will increase, suggesting that almost a third of tuberculosis cases in Russia (32.5 %) would be multidrug - resistant by 2040, as well as 12.4 % of tuberculosis cases in India, 8.9 % in the Philippines, and 5.7 % in South Africa.

In some parts of the world, as many as 50 % of tuberculosis cases are resistant to these drugs2.

The rise of drug - resistant tuberculosis poses a serious threat to humans, with approximately 580,000 cases occurring in 2015, resulting in about 250,000 deaths.

A standard and inexpensive tuberculosis treatment regimen cut the overall TB rate in half and lowered the rate of drug - resistant cases even more dramatically in a remote Mexican health district with...

«It's the case in measles, it's the case for drug - resistant tuberculosis, it's the case for MERS and SARS and Ebola.