Abstract
Background: Drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) has lately emerged and it represents a serious public health problem. We set out to determine drug resistance among TB patients. Methods: Using automated BACTEC cultures, multidrug resistant-tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was investigated in 117 diagnosed cases in Abuja, Nigeria. Results: Ten (31%) of 32 culture-positive patients were resistant to at least one and four (13%) to all of the four drugs tested. No association between drug resistance and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection was found. Conclusions: MDR-TB is present in Nigeria and larger studies are urgently required. TB clinical management and control efforts should be improved.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 184-187 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Annals of African Medicine |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2010 |
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Drug resistance
- human immunodeficiency virus
- Nigeria
- prevalence
- tuberculosis
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