TB resistance: total, or still just extensive?

It's not hard to see why the World Health Organization is reluctant to adopt the term "totally drug resistant" (TDR) to describe the growing number of strains of tuberculosis that seem to be proving unresponsive to any kind of drug therapy.

It's not hard to see why the World Health Organization is reluctant to adopt the term "totally drug resistant" (TDR) to describe the growing number of strains of tuberculosis that seem to be proving unresponsive to any kind of drug therapy.

Cases of TDR-TB were reported by researchers in India in January this year. The term is not new – it...

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