Small numbers of patients with drug-resistant TB may account for high proportion of new infections

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 09:16 in Health & Medicine

Inadequate treatment of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis (TB) can leave patients highly infectious, and small numbers of such patients may drive transmission of the disease in the very health care facilities intended to treat it, according to research published in PLoS Medicine.

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