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Exempel på hur man kan använda MDR-TB i en mening

• From a base in the region of Tomsk Oblast, Siberia, PIH has been working since 1998, in collaboration with the Russian Ministry of Health, to combat one of the world's worst epidemics of drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
• Particular success in treating multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) prompted international organizations to rededicate efforts to the eradication of the disease, and in June 2002, the World Health Organization adopted prescriptions for dealing with the disease that were virtually the same as PIH had used in Peru.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) defines XDR-TB as MDR-TB that is resistant to at least one fluoroquinolone and a second-line injectable drug (amikacin, capreomycin, or kanamycin).
• Treatment schedules for MDR-TB involving fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides can run for two years, compared to the six months of first-line drug treatment, and cost over US$100,000.
• Bayona was recruited in Peru to become the director of Socios en Salud (SES); a sister organization of Partners in Health (PIH) that started in Lima, Peru, to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and HIV/AIDS in patients, and to provide health care to the poor who live in limited-resource environments.

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