Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2011)

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1710.100952
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 10
pp. 1913 – 1916

Abstract

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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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