Tuberculosis Drug Resistance and HIV Infection, the Netherlands
- Catharina Hendrika Haar
- Frank G.J. Cobelens
- Nico A. Kalisvaart
- Jan J. van der Have
- Paul J.H.J. van Gerven
- Dick van Soolingen
Publication date
May 2007
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
In the Netherlands during 1993–2001, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among newly diagnosed patients was more frequent in those with HIV coinfection (5/308, 1.6%) than in those with no HIV infection (39/646, 0.6%; adjusted odds ratio 3.43, p = 0.015). Four of the 5 patients coinfected with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV were foreign-born. DNA fingerprint analysis suggested that transmission had occurred outside the Netherlands
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