re tuberculosis in article mar iscsvax uni edu klier iscsvax uni edu writes multiple drug resistance in tb is a relatively new phenomenon and one of the largest contributing factors is that people are no longer as scared of tb as they were before antibiotics it was roughly as feared as hiv is now not that new years ago we had drug addicts harboring active tb that was resistant to everything in chicago the difference now is that such strains have become virulent in the old days such tb was weak it didn t spread to other people very easily and just infected the one person in whom it developed because of non compliance with medications non compliance and development of resistant strains has been a problem for a very long time that is why we have like drugs against tb there is always a need to develop new ones due to such strains now however with a virulent resistant strain we are in more trouble and measures to assure compliance may be necessary even if they entail force gordon banks n jxp skepticism is the chastity of the intellect and geb cadre dsl pitt edu it is shameful to surrender it too soon
