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Fake anti-TB drugs on sale

PARIS - Developing countries including Thailadn are awash in fake or sub-standard drugs for tuberculosis, fuelling the rise of treatment-resistant strains of TB, according to a survey published on Tuesday.

Investigators in the United States asked local people in Bangkok and 18 other cities in 17 countries to purchase isoniazid and rifampicin, the frontline antibiotics for TB, from a private-sector pharmacy.

The samples were then examined by chromatography, a technique that detects chemical signature, for their active ingredient.

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  • apex2000

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    Discussion 2 : 05 Feb 2013 at 22.142

    "PARIS - Developing countries including Thailadn are awash in fake or sub-standard drugs for tuberculosis" - anyone have a spelling checker, or is there a proof reader employed by your newspaper? Never heard of Thailadn.

  • packman

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    Discussion 1 : 05 Feb 2013 at 21.121

    I take that stuff because I had TB in the bone. Been taken it for almost 8 months now. But I get mine from Bumrungard Hospital.

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