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A large proportion of these preventive, or prophylactic prescriptions also were for broad-spectrum antibiotics. (Photo: Pixabay)

Drugs prescribed to kids are often inappropriate

A large proportion of these preventive, or prophylactic prescriptions also were for broad-spectrum antibiotics.

22 March 2018 2:21 PM IST

Living with someone with TB accounted for most of the acquired cases (Photo: AFP)

Person-to-person contact causing drug-resistant TB

Drug resistance has gotten so bad, the rate of successful treatment can be less than 40 percent.

19 Jan 2017 1:33 PM IST

India, Indonesia, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa have 60% of the total number of cases. (Representational image)

Resistance risk for new TB drugs, claims study

TB kills more people every year than any other infectious disease, including AIDS, claims the report.

24 March 2017 12:23 AM IST

The spread of artemisinin resistance in Africa would be a major setback in the fight against malaria (Photo: AFP)

African researchers find drug-resistant malaria parasite

Malaria infected more than 200 million people and killed some 438,000 people worldwide in 2015, most of them children in...

23 Feb 2017 1:07 PM IST