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India has highest number of MDR-TB cases in South East Asia, says WHO [1]

The percentage of MDR in new TB cases in India is 2.1

India had an estimated 63,000 cases of notified multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2010, the highest in the South East Asia region, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Publication Date: 
23/03/2012
Aarti Dhar [2]
Hindu (New Delhi) [3]
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Tuberculosis [4], WHO [5], Population [6], India [7], China [8], Bangladesh [9], Indonesia [10], Nepal [11], Diseases [12], Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare [13], Drugs [14], Health [15]
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