Discordant Drug Susceptibility For Mycobacterium tuberculosis within Families
- 1 July 2012
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Vol. 31 (7), 783-785
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0b013e3182567c20
Abstract
Children with presumed tuberculosis who are in contact with a multidrug-resistant source case should be treated according to the drug susceptibility of the source case’s isolate. However, it is important to obtain a microbiologic diagnosis as it is possible for the child to have a different susceptibility profile to the source case. We present 2 such cases.Keywords
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