ANTC68H3 Chapter Notes -Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Poor Folk, Streptomycin
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In this case, emerging is synonymous with re-emerging. Some attribute increased tb cases to hiv. Antibiotics for tb has saved many lives, but death rates of tb was already in decline prior to. Tb was acknowledged as great white plague": that was when it also affected rich white males". But when tb virtually disappeared from rich folk, it was assumed conquered: this was wrong, as tb was still affecting poor folk, people of color e. t. c, ethnic minorities and other undesirables" account for most of excess cases. The disease has never disappeared in some neighbourhoods, contrary to claims. So in some nneighbourhoods it is not resurgent because it never disappeared! Estimated 12-14 million people coinfected with tb and hiv. Multidrug-resistant tb (mdr tb), de ned as resistance to the two most potent rst-line tb drugs, isoniazid and rifampin, was identi ed decades ago.
