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Increasing drug resistance in extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, South Africa |
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| Authors: | 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 |
| Affiliation: | Tugela Ferry Care and Research Collaboration, Tugela Ferry, South Africa. saritashah2@gmail.com |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Keywords: | Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis tuberculosis and other mycobacteria HIV drug resistance second-line drugs South Africa dispatch |
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