ABC News with what he is likely to go through:
Thursday, doctors at National Jewish planned to try two more antibiotics against the extensively drug-resistant disease — one oral, the other an intravenous injection.Dr. Henry Boom, director of the tuberculosis research unit at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, said such a “cocktail” is a common strategy for a resistant case like Speaker’s.
“What’s done in this situation is that you look at the drug-resistance pattern and try to come up with a cocktail of at least two or three drugs that have potential for treatment,” he said.
Three more antibiotics may be on the way for Speaker this week, and doctors will continue to scrutinize an isolated sample of bacterium taken from Speaker’s body to see if anything in the current arsenal of medicines can kill it.
