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TB treatment can be cut from 6 to 2 months : Truncate study

Hyderabad, Nov 25 (UNI) A promising study presented at The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2022, the Truncate TB trial, has revealed that some people who have TB can be treated in as little as two months, as against the six months of treatment that has been the standard of care in most countries since the 1980s.
The rationale behind the Truncate TB study, according to Erlina Burhan, a TB expert from the Faculty of Medicine Univeritas Indonesia, is that we are 'overtreating' majority of people who have drug-susceptible TB (DS-TB) who would actually be cured before the 6-month mark, to prevent relapse in a minority of people who would need the long treatment regimen.
This eye-opening study has revealed that the standard six-month treatment is actually over-treating a lot of people who have TB, which is the world’s leading infectious killer, a release here said on Friday.
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