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Tuberculosis
Findings from M. Hanif and co-authors provide new insights into tuberculosis
February 17th, 2009
"State TB Demonstration Centre, Delhi, India. To obtain a baseline estimate of the prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among previously treated tuberculosis (TB) cases at the State Tuberculosis Centre in 2006," researchers in New Delhi, India report. "A retrospective study. Drug susceptibility data of 5252 previously treated patients tested at this centre were analysed. Of 2880 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from previously treated cases, 1498 (52%) were resistant to one or more anti-tuberculosis drugs, of which 47.1% were MDR. Resistance to isoniazid was observed in all resistant isolates, followed by resistance to rifampicin in 1357 (47.1%),...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-02-17)
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