Tuberculosis

Hospital Testing Could Help Avoid Multi-Drug Resistance

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 17th, 2001

by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Testing hospital patients for tuberculosis - even those not suspected of having the disease - could help reduce the spread of TB in developing countries, say researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.

They found that a significant percentage of women who were admitted to a Peruvian hospital general ward for reasons other than tuberculosis were infected, and some carried multi-drug resistant TB.

F.F. Willingham and colleagues found that of 250 female patients, 16% were positive for M. tuberculosis by culture and 11% by smear. Three percent of the group had multi-drug resistant...

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