Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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Author: John W. Foster, Joan L. Slonczewski
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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The patient noncompliance leads to XDR-TB (Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis).
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Tuberculosis is a pulmonary infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It gets transmitted easily from one person to another through aerosols. The treatment involves the use of the first line of drugs and the second line of drugs. The strains that are resistant to all of them are untreatable and called multiple drug-resistant.
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Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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