New drugs and regimens for resistant tuberculosis

e202006066

Authors

  • Juan Espinosa Pereiro Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas. Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron. Programa de Salut Internacional del l’Institut Català de Salut (PROSICS). Barcelona. España. / Grupo de Estudio de Infecciones por Micobacterias (GEIM). Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. Madrid. España.
  • Ignacio Monedero Recuero TB-HIV Department. International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). Paris. Francia.
  • Adrián Sánchez Montalvá Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas. Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron. Programa de Salut Internacional del l’Institut Català de Salut (PROSICS). Barcelona. España. / Grupo de Estudio de Infecciones por Micobacterias (GEIM). Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. Madrid. España.

Keywords:

Medications, Resistant tuberculosis

Abstract

The authors reviewed with great interest the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), updated in March and December 2019. Treatment regimens for tuberculosis sensitive to first-line drugs have been used with little modification since their establishment in the 60s and 70s of the last century. In 2016, in the WHO Europe region (comprising 54 countries), treatment was successful in 77.2% of all tuberculosis cases but only 57.2% of MDR-TB cases. . In recent years, the disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to the most important drugs, rifampin and isoniazid, has become a growing global public health problem. It is estimated that 3.4% of new tuberculosis cases and 18% of previously treated cases are diagnosed with MDR-TB. There are a significant number of factors that explain the current epidemic of resistant tuberculosis, although the inappropriate or incomplete use of treatments is one of the main ones.

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2020-06-17

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Espinosa Pereiro J, Monedero Recuero I, Sánchez Montalvá A. New drugs and regimens for resistant tuberculosis: e202006066. Rev Esp Salud Pública [Internet]. 2020 Jun. 17 [cited 2026 Apr. 2];94:3 páginas. Available from: https://ojs.sanidad.gob.es/index.php/resp/article/view/905

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