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Any medicine to treat multi-drug resistance in tuberculosis ?

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Yes: Multi-drug resistant TB is resistant, by definition, to two drugs: Isoniazid and rifampin. There are many other drugs available which can be used in their place to treat and cure multi-drug resistant tb.

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Answered 6/7/2015

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