My brother has got tb relapse 3 Rd time Consecutively even he is on regular medicine We Have Done Geneexpert tb culture several time and all first line drugs are working Can Anyone Please help why this is happening? Is there any other disease also which is affecting his immunity along with tuberculosis? How to diagnose add on disease which is not letting him cure from tb? He is Non Hiv Patient Please help us.

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Dr. Mool Chand GuptaPulmonologist42yrs exp

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Gene expert MTB detects MTB and resistance to rifampicin only and not to any other drugs. Kindly gey sputum afb culture by line probe 1 and 2 for ressitance to primary and secondary TB drugs.

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