Incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in urban and rural India and implications for prevention.

Almeida, Deepak; Rodrigues, Camilla; Udwadia, Zarir F; Lalvani, Ajit; Gothi, G D; Mehta, Pravin; Mehta, Ajita · Clin Infect Dis · 2003

case_control · Level III

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Abstract

We compared the incidence of multidrug resistance in 150 consecutive Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained from a rural center (in Sakawar, India) and an urban tertiary care center (in Mumbai, India). The study highlights an alarmingly high percentage of multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis isolates in Mumbai (51%) as compared with that at the rural center (2%).

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