Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa
| Title: | Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa |
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| Authors: | N. Sarita Shah, Jessica Richardson, Prashini Moodley, Salona Moodley, Palav Babaria, Melissa Ramtahal, Scott K. Heysell, Xuan Li, Anthony P. Moll, Gerald Friedland, A. Willem Sturm, Neel R. Gandhi |
| Source: | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 17, Iss 3, Pp 510-513 (2011) |
| Publisher Information: | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011. |
| Publication Year: | 2011 |
| Collection: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Subject Terms: | Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, tuberculosis and other mycobacteria, HIV, drug resistance, second-line drugs, South Africa, Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216 |
| More Details: | 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. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1080-6040 1080-6059 |
| Relation: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/3/10-1363_article; https://doaj.org/toc/1080-6040; https://doaj.org/toc/1080-6059 |
| DOI: | 10.3201/eid1703.101363 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/c0556da7753d4705b3d1c9678b3fe93b |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.0556da7753d4705b3d1c9678b3fe93b |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 10806040 10806059 |
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| DOI: | 10.3201/eid1703.101363 |
| Published in: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
| Language: | English |