Drug-resistant TB

Definition

Drug-resistant TB refers to a strain of tuberculosis bacteria that has developed resistance to the drugs commonly used to treat the disease. This makes it more difficult and sometimes impossible to cure.

Related terms

Antibiotic Resistance: The ability of bacteria or other microorganisms to resist the effects of antibiotics, making infections harder to treat.

Multi-drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs): Microorganisms that are resistant to multiple types of antimicrobial drugs.

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB): A form of TB that is resistant not only to the most effective first-line drugs but also some second-line drugs, making it even more challenging to treat.