Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa

Shah, N. Sarita; Richardson, Jessica; Moodley, Prashini; Moodley, Salona; Babaria, Palav; Ramtahal, Melissa; Heysell, Scott K.; Li, Xuan; Moll, Anthony P.; Friedland, Gerald; Sturm, A. Willem; Gandhi, Neel R.

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Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa

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Mar 2011

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Emerg Infect Dis. 17(3):510-513.

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We expanded second-line tuberculosis (TB) drug susceptibility testing for extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from South Africa. Of 19 patients with extensively drug-resistant TB identified during February 2008-April 2009, 13 (68%) had isolates resistant to all 8 drugs tested. This resistance leaves no effective treatment with available drugs in South Africa.

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