Epidemiology (TB)

Tuberculosis Epidemic Among Some Homeless Russians

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 23rd, 1999

The growing number of homeless people in at least one Russian district has thwarted efforts to curb tuberculosis (TB), U.S. researchers said.

They said even the best-known strategy for treating TB - directly observed therapy, short course (DOTS) - has failed to stop the epidemic.

The researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said cases of multidrug-resistant TB even rose during their experiment.

"The incidence of tuberculosis in the Russian Federation has increased steadily from 34 per 100,000 population in 1991 to 78 per 100,000 in 1998," the CDC wrote in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly...

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