What is drug-resistant TB?
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by germ Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The disease spreads when a person sneezes, coughs, or breathes out. It can become drug-resistant if the infected TB patient fails to complete his treatment fully, takes improper medicines, or consumes prescribed medications improperly. This form of tuberculosis is resistant to at least one of the standard anti-TB drugs. In case of multidrug-resistant, TB (MDR TB), more than one anti-TB drug, commonly both Isoniazid (INH) and Rifampin (RIF), fails to cure the disease. Why is MDR TB more dangerous? MDR TB is many times more dangerous than common form of TB, as it is more difficult to treat the disease. Secondly, as the patient remains infectious for quite a while, it also threatens the health of the public and the healthcare professionals. If complicated by HIV/AIDS, MDR TB badly affects the health and the immune system of patients, who may perhaps die within a few weeks. The dangerous data According to heal
