Drug resistance in intestinal tuberculosis: A reason to worry?

Ajinkya Sonambekar Devendra C DesaiPhilip AbrahamVatsal MehtaHrishikesh SamantAnand JoshiTarun GuptaCamilla Rodrigues

Published in: JGH open : an open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology (2017)

Twenty-three percent of our patients with ITB tested for drug resistance had drug resistance, 13.9% being multidrug resistant and needing second-line anti-TB therapy.

Keyphrases

multidrug resistant
mycobacterium tuberculosis
drug resistant
gram negative
acinetobacter baumannii
pulmonary tuberculosis
escherichia coli
mesenchymal stem cells
pseudomonas aeruginosa
smoking cessation