�In the first statewide study of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) in the United States, California officials have identified 18 cases of the dangerous and difficult-to-treat disease betwixt 1993 and 2006, and 77 cases that were one whole step away from XDR TB. The study appears in the August 15 government issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online.
California reports most 3,000 cases of tuberculosis per annum, the largest number of TB cases of whatever U.S. state. California has also lED the country since 2002 in the number of multidrug-resistant t.B. (MDR TB) cases-those that are resistant to isoniazid and rifadin, the 2 antibiotics that form the backbone of TB treatment. XDR TB is immune to fifty-fifty more classes of antibiotics, including fluoroquinolones and one of three injectable second-line drugs. The authors of the new study evaluated drug susceptibility data of MDR TB cases identified by the California TB Registry betwixt 1993 and 2006, looking for cases that fit the XDR TB definition.
Of the 424 MDR TB cases, 4 pct were XDR and 18 percent were pre-XDR, which are ane drug out from XDR TB. The proportion of patients with pre-XDR isolates increased from 7 per centum in 1993 to 32 percent in 2005. XDR TB occurred due to inadequate handling of MDR TB, XDR TB transmission within California, and transmission of persons with XDR strains prior to U.S. arrival.
Over the course of study of the study, TB outcomes improved. Deaths declined among XDR TB cases identified subsequently 2000. However, the authors wrote, strategies must be implemented to identify and cure MDR and pre-XDR TB cases before they develop into XDR TB. Modeling studies suggest that unless phylogenesis of MDR into XDR is slowed, XDR cases could growth exponentially. Prevention is more cost-effective than treatment, they noted.
"Globally, XDR TB has resulted from a combination of poor TB control practices, poor adhesion to medications, inappropriate manipulation of second-line drugs, want of laboratory capacity to culture TB or assess drug susceptibleness, and high HIV prevalence," said lead author Ritu Banerjee, MD, PhD of the University of California at San Francisco. "In order to prevent an escalation in XDR TB we need to insure adherence to the cornerstones of TB management, which include directly observed therapy, isolation of infectious cases, and contact investigations. We also need to institute routine, rapid, and similar methods to assess drug susceptibility of TB isolates," she over.
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