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

Emerging Infectious Diseases

关键词: Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis;    tuberculosis and other mycobacteria;    HIV;    drug resistance;    second-line drugs;    South Africa;   

DOI  :  10.3201/eid1703.101363

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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 tested. This resistance leaves no effective treatment with available drugs in South Africa.

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