From
JATA, a study of XDR-TB in just one hospital
All 13 cases had been diagnosed at other hospitals. The mean period from TB diagnosis to XDRTB diagnosis was 56.8 months, and the mean period from TB diagnosis to referral to our hospital was 81.6 months
All this is in a country that has called TB a
national emergency - the times indicate poor treatment and/or poor follow up of diagnosed cases
XDR-TB and MDR-TB are man-made diseases. We need to take measures not to create more XDR strains and induce more MDR-TB cases.
Mori and Kobayashi
can see problems
poor incentives for TB treatment discourage the healthcare community from continuing TB clinical services, thus presenting an urgent challenge for ensuring the quality and quantity of TB treatment...
...the TB problem as a whole has become increasingly formidable, both medically and socio-economically, and the government and the healthcare community are not addressing this new situation appropriately
