期刊论文详细信息
Emerging Infectious Diseases | |
Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa | |
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.
【 授权许可】
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