MDR-TB: A Real Threat to TB Control

  Shobha Shukla According to the recently released WHO Global TB Report 2013, 450,000 people fell ill with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and 170,000 died from the disease in 2012 alone. China, India and the Russian Federation have the highest burden of MDR-TB followed by 24 other countries.  Although the number of people detected worldwide with [...]

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