Challenges Of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious infection disease that primarily affects the lung. It can also spread to other parts of the body like brain and spine principally through hematogenous route and is called Extrapulmonary TB. Sometimes infection directly extends from an adjacent organ. A patient when diagnosed with TB are kept on ani-tubercular drugs for different duration of time for different TB conditions. The commonly used first line drugs for TB are Isoniazid, Rifampicin, Ethambutol, Pyrazinamide and Streptomycin.