Gennady Onishchenko named the main danger of tuberculosis

The main danger of tuberculosis is the emergence of resistance to antibiotics, said Gennady Onishchenko.

A dangerous tuberculosis pathogen, EurA1.1, resistant to several types of antibiotics, has begun to circulate in Russia.

MOSCOW, September 9 - RIA Novosti. The main danger of tuberculosis is the emergence of resistance to antibiotics, RAS academician and deputy president of the Russian Academy of Education Gennady Onishchenko told RIA Novosti.

Earlier, the Izvestia newspaper, citing a genetic study by European scientists and comments from domestic doctors, reported that the dangerous tuberculosis pathogen EurA1.1 began to circulate in Russia. According to them, due to the resistance of the pathogen to several types of antibiotics, treatment of the infection is complicated. However, doctors still have means to combat the disease.

“Tuberculosis is a social disease; it largely depends on the standard of living and status. The main problem of tuberculosis is antibiotic resistance in all its types. And this is, first of all, the complexity of treatment and the course is more expensive and longer,” Onishchenko said.