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Kenya battles new Tuberculosis strain
BY Joy Wanja Muraya
Updated Friday, August 14th 2015 at 23:59 GMT +3
Two patients in the last one year have been diagnosed with a new borderline strain of Tuberculosis (TB) in Kenya, The Standard on Saturday has exclusively learnt.
Known as pre-XDR TB, this strain is resistant to one form of the drugs used to treat Multi-Drug Resistant TB and could graduate to the more infectious form known as XDR-TB if left untreated.
Head of the National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Lung Disease programme (NTLD) Enos Masini told the Standard on Saturday that the first case of a patient with unique strain of the respiratory disease was diagnosed last year and investigations done revealed that they were resistant to one form of TB medicines...
Kenya battles new Tuberculosis strain
BY Joy Wanja Muraya
Updated Friday, August 14th 2015 at 23:59 GMT +3
Two patients in the last one year have been diagnosed with a new borderline strain of Tuberculosis (TB) in Kenya, The Standard on Saturday has exclusively learnt.
Known as pre-XDR TB, this strain is resistant to one form of the drugs used to treat Multi-Drug Resistant TB and could graduate to the more infectious form known as XDR-TB if left untreated.
Head of the National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Lung Disease programme (NTLD) Enos Masini told the Standard on Saturday that the first case of a patient with unique strain of the respiratory disease was diagnosed last year and investigations done revealed that they were resistant to one form of TB medicines...