Russia’s drug-resistant TB spreading more easily : Nature News & Comment
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“Although we know the general story of TB drug resistance in Russia, these new findings are still shocking,” says Christopher Dye, an epidemiologist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. “Truly scary,” he adds. (...)
But even if biology is a major driver of Russia’s drug-resistant TB epidemic, public-health officials can still beat it back, says Dye. “My bet is that, if the local control programme correctly identifies strains carried by each patient, and treats them with the most effective drug regimens, then the number of resistant cases will fall,”