Concordance of Resistance Profiles in Households of Patients With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis. (28th October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Parr, Jonathan B.; Mitnick, Carole D.; Atwood, Sidney S.; Chalco, Katiuska; Bayona, Jaime; Becerra, Mercedes C.
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 58:Number 3(2014)
• Page Start: 392
• Page End: 395
• Publication Date: 2013-10-28
• Subjects: DST -- discordant -- presumptive -- empirical -- contact; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit709
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

Abstract: We estimated the proportion of household contacts whose drug-susceptibility test results matched those of the purported source patient with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Ninety-nine (88.4%) contacts had isolates resistant to isoniazid and rifampin, and 41 (36.6%) contacts had isolates with results that also matched the purported source for ethambutol, streptomycin, and pyrazinamide.