PUNE: A seven-month-old girl from Ahmednagar has become the sixth infant aged below one year to be diagnosed with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at the Sassoon hospital here this year. The youngest baby to contract the infection was only two months old.
One of the reasons for all six babies getting the infection has been their exposure to people with MDR-TB. As many as 401 people have so far been diagnosed with MDR-TB in Pune district in the last two years.
MDR-TB is caused by bacteria that do not respond to, at least, isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most powerful, first-line anti-TB drugs.
Source: The Times of India