Childrens progress in diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 14 Children’s progress in diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB [Keywords:] Children’s progress in diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB 2008 ‘Global TB drug resistance control’ of the report, the global multi-drug resistant TB (MDR  TB) incidence rate hit an all-time record. China is one of the world’s TB high-burden countries, WHO’s Global TB Control Report 2008 China as a 22 second high-burden TB, MDR-average ratio of 9.3%, and from the world in terms of multi-drug resistant the average ratio of only 4.8%, China’s proportion of MDR-TB is almost two times the world average. In 2006, China has 13 million new drug-resistant TB, accounting for the world’s emerging drug-resistant TB 28%, re-treatment rate of 20%, while the international average, retreatment rate was 11%. As our country there is a high resistance rate of tuberculosis, making TB a serious damage to the majority of the people’s health. Because children’s development of immune function is not yet mature, and easily become susceptible TB. And that children with clinical signs and symptoms of TB-free characteristic, TB load is low, younger children can not effectively expectoration, systemic disseminated tuberculosis and more features, it is difficult to diagnose through the determination of etiology of children TB, so there is no Global exact incidence of tuberculosis among children. But as adults, the incidence of TB increased incidence of tuberculosis in children is also on the rise, tuberculosis is generally estimated that children accounted for 15% of the total number of TB to 20%, the global increase in drug-resistant TB, children are bound to increase in drug-resistant TB. One of several concepts related to drug-resistant TB Single-drug-resistant TB (mono  resistance tuberculosis): TB patients infected with TB bacilli on any kind of first-line anti-TB drug resistance. Multi-drug-resistant TB (poly  resistance tuberculosis): TB patients with TB infe