Incidence of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Urban and Rural India and Implications for Prevention
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- 15 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 36 (12), e152-e154
- https://doi.org/10.1086/374931
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%).Keywords
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