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Tuberculosis
Data on tuberculosis reported by researchers at Kuwait University, Medical Department
April 8th, 2008
"To determine the incidence and trends of drug resistance among all Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated during a 10-year period in Kuwait. Drug susceptibility data for M. tuberculosis isolates recovered from all pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients in Kuwait from January 1996 to December 2005 were collected and analysed," researchers in Kuwait report. "Patients were divided into Kuwaiti nationals and expatriates. Prior treatment status was not recorded. From 1996 to 2005, 5399 non-repetitive culture-positive TB cases (56% from pulmonary sites and 44% from extra-pulmonary sites) among 917 (17%) Kuwaiti nationals and 4482 (83%) expatriates were...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-08)
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