Outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa undetected by standard tests
(WorldNews Belgium)

In 2017, 1.6 million people died of tuberculosis. This disease is curable but has also developed drug resistance. Yet even multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) can often still be cured with alternative antibiotics, provided that the disease is diagnosed quickly. Inadequate diagnostic tests An international team of researchers has now shown that MDR-TB strains have developed ways to fool even the latest diagnostic tests, which are endorsed by the World Health Organization...