Drug-resistant extrapulmonary tuberculosis

Oh Hyun Cho, Ki Ho Park, Seong Yeon Park, Song Mi Moon, Yong Pil Chong, Mi Na Kim, Sang Oh Lee, Sang Ho Choi, Jun Hee Woo, Yang Soo Kim, Sung Han Kim

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Abstract

The prevalence and pattern of drug-resistant extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is not well characterized in Korea. Therefore, we assessed the incidence of drug resistance for extrapulmonary TB in adult patients at a tertiary hospital. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records and results of drug susceptibility test in all culture-confirmed extapulmonary TB patients during an 18-month period. Out of a total of 168 cases in which the drug susceptibility test was performed, resistance to at least one anti-TB drug was found in 15 cases (8.9%), and multidrug resistance, in which TB was resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampin, was found in 3 cases (1.8%).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)258-261
Number of pages4
JournalInfection and Chemotherapy
Volume43
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2011

Keywords

  • Extrapulmonary
  • Resistance
  • Tuberculosis

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