New anti-TB drugs for patients with complex drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai
Channel: F1000
Date: 17/06/2016

Sarthak Rastogi presents the recent MSF efforts in providing new anti-tuberculosis drugs to patients with complex drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai. Drug resistant patterns are recently emerging making it difficult to treat patients on time and use new drugs that take time to be tested for efficacy and toxicity. MSF provides treatment services in Mumbai since 2006 and is seeing increasing proportion of drug resistant TB cases every year. Here are shown the data from a small cohort of patients who received two of the new drugs validate by the WHO. 

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http://f1000research.com/slides/5-1031

This video is part of an F1000Research channel that includes posters, slides and videos from the MSF Scientific Day meeting in New Delhi. To see more please visit: http://f1000research.com/channels/msf/sciday-india