Many Cured of Most Resistant TB Type

High cure rates are possible for a form of tuberculosis that resists most drugs, researchers report. The study looked at 651 people in Peru with TB. Of these, 48 had the extensively drug-resistant type. They were treated for an average of two years. In all, 29 completed treatment or were cured. The success rate for those with a less drug-resistant type of TB was slightly higher. Reuters Health news service wrote about the study August 6. It was in the New England Journal of Medicine.