MSF: More than a quarter of MDR-TB cases in Swaziland not caught by “front line of defense” in fighting the disease
The nonprofit medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières is recommending that all patients in Swaziland who have tested positive for TB, but rapid molecular testing has found negative for drug-resistance undergo further testing, following findings that a mutation has made more than a quarter of multidrug-resistant strains undetectable by the widely used test. MSF, its […]