Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa

Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa

We expanded second-line tuberculosis (TB) drug susceptibility testing for extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from South Africa. Of 19 patients with extensively drug-resistant TB identified during February 2008–April 2009, 13 (68%) had isolates resistant to all 8 drugs tes...

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Main Authors: N. Sarita Shah, Jessica Richardson, Prashini Moodley, Salona Moodley, Palav Babaria, Melissa Ramtahal, Scott K. Heysell, Xuan Li, Anthony P. Moll, Gerald Friedland, A. Willem Sturm, Neel R. Gandhi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011-03-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
tuberculosis and other mycobacteria
HIV
drug resistance
second-line drugs
South Africa
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/3/10-1363_article

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