Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Burkina Faso
- Nuccia Saleri
- Gisèle Badoum
- Martial Ouedraogo
- Sary M. Dembélé
- Rachel Nacanabo
- Victor Bonkoungou
- Daniela Cirillo
- Gabriele Pinsi
- Alberto Matteelli
Publication date
May 2010
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
Because data from countries in Africa are limited, we measured the proportion of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) cases among TB patients in Burkina Faso for whom retreatment was failing. Of 34 patients with multidrug-resistant TB, 2 had an XDR TB strain. Second-line TB drugs should be strictly controlled to prevent further XDR TB increase
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