But that method is at best ineffective in treating drug-resistant TB.

It takes about 6 to 9 months to treat TB.

Most of the time, doctors combine four antibiotics to treat active TB.

You can take medicines to prevent and to treat TB.

Multiple-drug therapy to treat TB means taking several different antibiotics at the same time.

Side effects of medicines used to treat TB are not common.

Worse yet, many of the new cases are resistant to one or more drugs used to treat TB.

The rationale for using multiple drugs to treat TB are based on simple probability.

Secondary drugs used to treat resistant TB have not been well studied in children.

In addition, we need more drugs to treat TB.