Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2001–2007
- Kristina Wallengren
- Fabio Scano
- Paul Nunn
- Bruce Margot
- Sandile S.S. Buthelezi
- Brian Williams
- Alexander Pym
- Elisabeth Y. Samuel
- Fuad Mirzayev
- Wilfred Nkhoma
- Lindiwe Mvusi
- Yogan Pillay
Publication date
October 2011
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
In Africa, incidence and prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis have been assumed to be low. However, investigation after a 2005 outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, found that the incidence rate for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal was among the highest globally and would be higher if case-finding efforts were intensified
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