Poor patient compliance which can be attributed to poor doctor follow up and/or improper treatment is being pinpointed as one of the major causes of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB). According to reports, most cases of drug-resistant TB did not result from person-to-person infection but were mutations that occurred in patients who received inappropriate treatment....
Read more …Poor patient compliance which can be attributed to poor doctor follow up and/or improper treatment is being pinpointed as one of the major causes of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB). According to reports, most cases of drug-resistant TB did not result from person-to-person infection but were mutations that occurred in patients who received inappropriate treatment.
Doctors from P.D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Center reported in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases that they found cases of patients with TB that received “erratic, unsupervised second-line drugs, added individually and often in incorrect doses, from multiple private practitioners." Inappropriate treatments like this have resulted not only in patient deaths but drug-resistant strains of the disease.
