NEW TUBERCLE BACILLUS
Resistance To Drugs Found “The Press’ Special Service GISBORNE. August 30. The development of a strain of tubercle bacillus resistant to three standard antituberCulosis drugs were recorded by Dr. J. Simpson. tuberculosis officer to the Cook Hospital Board, in a report. Dr. Simpson said routine testing for sensitivity to antituberculosis drugs of the strains’of tuber* cule bacillus found in the sputum of patients in the wards had now been carried out for some lime. “1 have been disturbed to find.” he said, "that among new patients admitted to the wards there is an increasing number whose strain of bacillus is resistant on first culture to one or more of the three antituberculosis drugs. At present there are five such patients out of 43 in th£ wdrds, or over 10 per cent.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28370, 31 August 1957, Page 11
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