LESS EFFECT BY T.B. DRUGS
Patients Building Up Resistance
(New Zealand Pres* AMoeiation) DUNEDIN. June 2. Standard drugs used i for treating tuberculosis are losing their effectiveness bee use an increasing number of patients are showing resistance to them, according to the medical superintendent of the Waipiata Sanatorium, Dr. H. R. Paterson. Dr. Paterson said this in his annual report to a meeting of the Waipiata Sanatorium Committee in Dunedin. The resistance developed followed the same pattern as that to penicillin and other drugs. “It is the same idea as mosquitoes in some countries becoming resistant to the effects of D.D.T. The less effective, more toxic and more expensive drugs are having to be used.” While use of these drugs was more difficult, treatment using standard drugs bad by no means become ineffective. “Relapse" cases unfortunately showed no diminution and possible reasons tor this were either no treatment with modern drugs or inadequate amounts for too short a time previously, Dr Paterson said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28911, 3 June 1959, Page 14
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