Results: The positive rate of LMT in the patients with no drug resistance pulmonary tuberculosis (12 5%) is lower significantly than that in the patient with MDR PTB(53 3%).
Conclusion The sequential therapeutic effect of sodium aminosalicylate injection/pasiniazid in the treatment of relapsing and drug resistant tuberculosis was one of the satisfactory regimens.
Research on treatment efficacy of the patients with drug resistance in the project for drug resistance surveillance in Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces
This need is further accentuated by emerging diseases like multi drug resistant tuberculosis, tuberculosis in AIDS patients and opportunistic mycobacterial infections, which do not respond to conventional anti TB therapy.
This reinforces the hypothesis that histoplasmosis is present in the Philippines and is probably being misdiagnosed as granulomatous-inducing diseases such as tuberculosis, e.g., so-called "drug resistant" tuberculosis.