Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393615098
Author: John W. Foster, Joan L. Slonczewski
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Chapter 26.3, Problem 1TQ
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The patient noncompliance leads to XDR-TB (Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis).
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Tuberculosis is a pulmonary infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It gets transmitted easily from one person to another through aerosols. The treatment involves the use of the first line of drugs and the second line of drugs. The strains that are resistant to all of them are untreatable and called multiple drug-resistant.
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Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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