Eastern Cape treatment dysfunction boosts virulent new XDR-TB strain

Chris Bateman
May 22, 2015, 11:50 p.m.

At least half of all known drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients in the Port Elizabeth area (and possibly the entire Eastern Cape) are being treated with too few drugs, fuelling the spread of extensively drug-resistant (XDR)-TB and condemning them to death.

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Source: SciELO