Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2010)

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Pakistan

  • Rumina Hasan,
  • Kauser Jabeen,
  • Asho Ali,
  • Yasraba Rafiq,
  • Rabia Laiq,
  • Babar Malik,
  • Mahnaz Tanveer,
  • Ramona Groenheit,
  • Solomon Ghebremichael,
  • Sven Hoffner,
  • Zahra Hasan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1609.100280
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 9
pp. 1473 – 1475

Abstract

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Frequency of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Pakistan increased from 1.5% in 2006 to 4.5% in 2009 (p<0.01). To understand the epidemiology, we genotyped selected strains by using spoligotyping, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units–variable number of tandem repeats, and IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis.

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