Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is defined as TB that is resistant to both isoniazid [INH] and rifampicin [RMP], two of the first-line drugs used in treating smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis.ultidrug-Resistant TB (MDR-TB). Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is defined by the WHO as MDR-TB with additional resistance to any fluoroquinolone (FQ) and to at least one of three injectable second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs used in treatment (capreomycin [CPM], kanamycin [KM] or amikacin [AMK]).
Wither, shrivel imply a shrinking, wilting, and wrinkling. Wither (of plants and flowers) is to dry up, shrink, wilt, fade, whether as a natural process or as the result of exposure to excessive heat or drought: Plants withered in the hot sun. Shrivel, used of thin, flat objects and substances, such as leaves, the skin, etc., means to curl, roll up, become wrinkled: The leaves shrivel in cold weather.
bier. 1. a frame or stand on which a corpse or the coffin containing it is laid before burial. 2. such a stand together with the corpse or coffin.[before 900; Middle English bere, Old English bÄr, bÇ£r(e) ].ier. n. 1. a platform or stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse rests before burial. [Old English bÇ£r; related to beran to bear 1, Old High German bÄra bier, Sanskrit bhÄra bhÄrÃ¡ a]. burden