Drug resistant tuberculosis in Estonia.

  • 1 February 1998
    • journal article
    • Vol. 2  (2) , 130-3
Abstract
The incidence of drug resistant tuberculosis in Estonia has increased rapidly during the last five to six years. To investigate the drug resistance patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from tuberculosis patients in Estonia. In 1994, 623 cases of tuberculosis were diagnosed in Estonia, 518 new cases with no previous history of tuberculosis, and 105 with a history of previous treatment for tuberculosis. All pulmonary M. tuberculosis isolates from 1994 were analysed for drug susceptibility. Of the 302 new cases (58.3%) that were culture verified, 28% had isolates resistant to one or more of the four drugs tested (isoniazid, rifampicin, streptomycin, ethambutol), and 9% had multi-drug resistant (resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampicin) strains. The incidence of drug resistance in M. tuberculosis is high in Estonia.

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