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Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Dispatch

Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Detection, Latvia

Girts Skenders*, Alicia M. Fry†, Inga Prokopovica*, Silvija Greckoseja*, Lonija Broka*, Beverly Metchock†, Timothy H. Holtz†, Charles D. Wells†Comments to Author , and Vaira Leimane*
Author affiliations: *State Centre of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Riga, Latvia; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Table 2

Drug-susceptibility profiles for patients at high risk for MDR-TB with acid-fast bacilli–positive respiratory specimens*†

Drug resistance No. (%)
None 35 (40.0)
Any resistance 52 (60.0)
Rifampin (total) 34 (38.6)
Mono-rifampin 1 (1.1)
MDR (total) 33 (37.5)
R, H 2 (2.3)
R, H, S 17 (19.3)
R, H, S, E 14 (15.9)
Isoniazid (total) 52 (59)
Mono-isoniazid 5 (5.7)
H, S 14 (15.9)

*N = 88; includes 86 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from BACTEC plus 2 isolates that grew on Löwenstein-Jensen media.
†R, rifampin; H, isoniazid; S, streptomycin; E, ethambutol; MDR-TB, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

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