Conventional TB diagnosis takes 4-6 weeks [8], causing unacceptable delays. Moreover, DOTS requires patients to collect ...

representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at least 55 countries worldwide. These data substantiate the need for ...

Now, researchers have found that better tuberculosis surveillance programmes could have delayed the emergence of extensively drug-resistant strains of TB called Mycobacterium tuberculosis (XDR-TB).