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Incurable TB strain detected at Hinduja
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, January 07, 2012
First Published: 00:58 IST(7/1/2012)
Last Updated: 01:00 IST(7/1/2012)
For the first time in India, 12 people have been detected with totally drug resistant lung tuberculosis (TDR-TB), a condition in which patients do not respond to any TB medication, at PD Hinduja Hospital in Mahim. The mortality rate for this strain of the infectious disease is 100%.
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?A TB patient comes in contact with at least 10 to 15 people on average, thus the strain is likely to spread,? said Dr Zarir F Udwadia, consultant physician at PD Hinduja Hospital, who coauthored a paper on TDR-TB that was published in the scientific journal Clinical Infectious Diseases Advance Access on December 21. The patients, including a 13-year-old girl, were diagnosed in October. Since then, a 31-year-old woman from Dharavi died in November.
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Incurable TB strain detected at Hinduja
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, January 07, 2012
First Published: 00:58 IST(7/1/2012)
Last Updated: 01:00 IST(7/1/2012)
For the first time in India, 12 people have been detected with totally drug resistant lung tuberculosis (TDR-TB), a condition in which patients do not respond to any TB medication, at PD Hinduja Hospital in Mahim. The mortality rate for this strain of the infectious disease is 100%.
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?A TB patient comes in contact with at least 10 to 15 people on average, thus the strain is likely to spread,? said Dr Zarir F Udwadia, consultant physician at PD Hinduja Hospital, who coauthored a paper on TDR-TB that was published in the scientific journal Clinical Infectious Diseases Advance Access on December 21. The patients, including a 13-year-old girl, were diagnosed in October. Since then, a 31-year-old woman from Dharavi died in November.
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