Epidemiology (TB)

In Texas, Resistant TB Rates Highest Along Border

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 8th, 1999

During the past decade drug-resistant tuberculosis rates in Texas have been highest for those living along the border with Mexico, according to an epidemiological study reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Between 1987 and 1996 more than 22,000 tuberculosis cases were reported in Texas, at an average annual incidence of 12.5 cases per 100,000 population.

"Counties with the highest rates were located along the Mexico-Texas border and in northwestern Texas," J.P. Taylor et al. wrote ("Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Texas," American Journal of Epidemiology, February 1999;149(4):359-365).

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