Extensive drug resistant

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With the English name Extensive drug resistant or its abbreviation XDR are pathogens called that "comprising resistant to drugs are" among others so against most conventional antibiotics resistant show. The term is mainly used in connection with tuberculosis pathogens . Here resistance arises as a result of ineffective treatment with antibiotics. XDR forms of tuberculosis are now spreading worldwide.

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  1. ↑ Plan to combat extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: Recommendations of the Federal Tuberculosis Task Force. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In: MMWR Recomm Rep. , 2009 Feb 13, 58 (RR-3), pp. 1-43, PMID 19214162
  2. ^ Emergence of XDR-TB: WHO concern over extensive drug resistant TB strains that are virtually untreatable. WHO ; Retrieved November 12, 2009