Beschreibung:
<jats:p>The magnitude of problem with tuberculosis lies in the fact that one third of
the world population is infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Even in the
21st century, tuberculosis kills more people than any other infective agent.
Definition of case of resistance - the case of resistant tuberculosis is
precisely defined by the recommendations of the World Health Organization as
primary, initial, acquired multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant
tuberculosis. The development of resistance tuberculosis may result from the
administration of monotherapy or inadequate combinations of anti-tuberculosis
drugs. A possible role of doctors in the development of multi drug-resistant
tuberculosis is very important. Actually, multi drug-resistant tuberculosis
is a direct consequence of mistakes in prescribing chemotherapy, provision of
anti-tuberculosis drugs, surveillance of the patient and decision-making
regarding further treatment as well as in a wrong way of administration of
anti-tuberculosis drugs. The problem of extensively drug-resistant
tuberculosis in the world has become very alarming. In South Africa,
extensively drug resistant tuberculosis accounts for 24% of all tuberculosis
case. It can be concluded that only adequate treatment according to directly
supervised short regiment for correctly categorized cases of tuberculosis can
stop the escalation of multidrug or extensively drug resistant tuberculosis,
which is actually an incurable illness in the 21st century.</jats:p>