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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Shah, N. Sarita ; Richardson, Jessica ; Moodley, Prashini ; Moodley, Salona ; Babaria, Palav ; ... More +
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. Less -
Description:
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.
Subject:
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Adult
Antitubercular Agents
Dispatch
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Female
Humans
Male
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Middle Aged
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
Young Adult

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 17(3):510-513.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
South Africa
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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