"Comparative Study of Drug Resistance Pattern in HIV Positive and HIV Negative Cases of Tuberculosis."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 11th International Conference on AIDS, held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, British Columbia, "Objective: Drug resistance is the main problem in TB control programme. The main objective of this study was to compare drug resistance pattern in HIV positive and negative cases of TB. Method: A total of 500 sputum sample from clinically suspected cases of TB were processed for smear, culture and for the identification of type of Mycobacteria using standard techniques. All positive cultures of M. tuberculosis were tested for drug susceptibility to Isoniazid, Rifampicin, Streptomycin and Ethambutol by proportion...

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