Nigeria: New Medicine to Counter Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Debuts

20 August 2019

The Food and Drug Administration, FDA, has approved a medication for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis infection.

The drug, an antibiotic called Pretomanid is targeted at the most dangerous types of tuberculosis infections known as Extensively Drug-Resistant tuberculosis, XDR-TB, and mullti-drug-resistant TB, MDR-TB, which is resistant to at least four of the main TB drugs, and treatment often fails. Only around 34 percent of infected patients with drug resistant TB typically survive, according to the World Health Organisation.

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