Suspected Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis: a Case Report

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a disease of clinical and public health importance globally with over nine million cases occurring yearly. An increasing number of cases has been identified all over the world in the past two decades because of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus pandemic. The emergence of mutated drug resistant and multidrug resistant strains offers new challenges to the clinician as well as the public health physician. The present case report draws attention to the problem of multidrug resistant TB and the implications for TB control if not adequately tackled.

Keywords

• multidrug resistant; tuberculosis; challenge