Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2010)

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1605.091262
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 5
pp. 840 – 842

Abstract

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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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