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Pretomanid Tablets – Treating Drug Resistant TB
August 17 , 2019
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- The United States has approved the use of Pretomanid Tablets to treat an extremely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.
- Pretomanid when used in combination with antibiotics bedaquiline and linezolid cured 89% of 107 patients with extensively drug-resistant TB after 6 months.
- The above three drugs together called BPaL regimen.
- Because of the new treatment, TB patients who were supposed to take 30 pills a day can now take only 5 pills a day.
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