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Transmission and prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a Brazilian setting under a directly observed therapy
Fábio Oliveira Latrilha1, Vera Simonsen1, Juliana Maira Watanabe Pinhata1
1Instituto Adolfo Lutz, Centro de Bacteriologia, Núcleo de Tuberculose e Micobacterioses, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Introduction:
We aimed to estimate the prevalence and transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a high-burden Brazilian setting under directly observed therapy short-course strategy.
Methods:
Isolates of culture-confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis patients from Guarulhos, Brazil, diagnosed in October 2007-2011 were subjected to drug susceptibility and IS6110-restriction fragment length polymorphism testing.
Results:
The overall resistance prevalence was 11.5% and the multi-drug resistance rate was 4.2%. Twenty-six (43.3%) of 60 drug-resistant isolates were clustered. Epidemiological relationships were identified in 11 (42.3%) patients; 30.8% of the cases were transmitted in households.
Conclusions:
Drug-resistant tuberculosis was relatively low and transmitted in households and the community.
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