London, August 25: An Indian-origin researchers in the U. S. says that a cure for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is possible with a combination of at least five drugs.
Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee of Harvard Medical School in the US carried out a trial with 600 patients in Russia, about five per cent of whom had extensively drug-resistant TB.
His team gave each patient an individually tailored treatment programme on the basis of the strain they had.