A critical analysis of multi-drug resistant and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis management in India

Pages: 887-890
Vinod Kumar and Pardeep Khanna (Department of Community, Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak)
Manju Rani (Department of Community Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak)
Garima Shivhare (MD Anatomy, PGIMS, Rohtak)
Pooja (Medical Officer, HCMS)
Pramod Kumar Saharan (College of Nursing, Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak)

Tuberculosis (TB) is contagious and airborne bacterial diseases. It is a disease of poverty affecting mostly young adults in their most productive years. MDR-TB takes longer to treat with second-line drugs, which are more expensive and have more side-effects. XDR-TB can develop when these second-line drugs are also misused or mismanaged and therefore also become ineffective.