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multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis
UN, AIDS. tuberculosis reacia a la medicación
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multiple drug resistant tuberculosis MDR-TB
med. A form of tuberculosis TB that is resistant to the two most effective antibiotics commonly used to cure TB infection isoniazid and rifampin. People infected with multiple drug resistant-TB MDR-TB are at high risk for treatment failure. They are also at risk for further drug resistance, which can lead to life-threatening disease—extensively drug resistant tuberculosis XDR-TB. see also drug resistance, extensively drug resistant tuberculosis, tuberculosis