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extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
stresses
med.
туберкулёз с широкой лекарственной устойчивостью
(XDR-TB
Morning93
)
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extensively drug resistant tuberculosis
XDR-TB
med.
A relatively rare type of multiple drug resistant tuberculosis
MDR-TB
. Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis
XDR-TB
occurs when a Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain becomes resistant to drugs used to treat TB, including the two most effective first-line antibiotics
isoniazid and rifampin
and most of the second-line drugs. XDR-TB progresses more rapidly and is more severe in people coinfected with HIV than in people infected with XDR-TB alone.
see also
multiple drug resistant tuberculosis
,
mycobacterium tuberculosis
,
tuberculosis
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