| Literature DB >> 26614196 |
G Günther1, F van Leth2, N Altet3, M Dedicoat4, R Duarte5, G Gualano6, H Kunst7, I Muylle8, V Spinu9, S Tiberi10, P Viiklepp11, C Lange12.
Abstract
The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is a challenge to TB control in Europe. We evaluated second-line drug susceptibility testing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients with multidrug-resistant, pre-extensively drug-resistant (pre-XDR-TB) and XDR-TB at 23 TBNET sites in 16 European countries. Over 30% of bacilli from patients with pre-XDR-TB showed resistance to any fluoroquinolone and almost 70% to any second-line injectable drug. Respectively >90% and >80% of the XDR-TB strains tested showed phenotypic resistance to pyrazinamide and ethambutol. Resistance to prothionamide/ethionamide was high in bacilli from pre-XDR-TB patients (43%) and XDR-TB patients (49%).Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26614196 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.15.0274
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Tuberc Lung Dis ISSN: 1027-3719 Impact factor: 2.373