• Emerging Infect. Dis. · Mar 2011

    Increasing drug resistance in extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, South Africa.

    • 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, and Neel R Gandhi.
    • Tugela Ferry Care and Research Collaboration, Tugela Ferry, South Africa. saritashah2@gmail.com
    • Emerging Infect. Dis. 2011 Mar 1; 17 (3): 510-3.

    AbstractWe 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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