Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis  Outbreak among US-bound Hmong  Refugees, Thailand, 2005

John E. Oeltmann

, Jay K. Varma, Luis Ortega, Yecai Liu, Thomas O’Rourke, Maria Cano, Theresa A. Harrington, Sean Toney, Warren Jones, Samart Karuchit, Lois Diem, Dhanida Rienthong, Jordan W. Tappero, Kashef Ijaz, and Susan A. Maloney

Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J.E. Oeltmann, L. Ortega, Y. Liu, M. Cano, T. Harrington, S. Toney, L. Diem, K. Ijaz, S.A. Maloney); Thailand Ministry of Public Health–US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, Bangkok, Thailand (J.K. Varma, S. Karuchit, J.W. Tappero); The International Organization for Migration, Bangkok (T. O’Rourke, W. Jones); Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok (D. Rienthong);

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Locations of dwellings within camp for Hmong refugees with tuberculosis (TB), Thailand, February 2005. Symbols indicate dwellings of patients with the following types of TB: red triangles, multidrug-resistant; yellow squares, resistant to >1 anti-TB medications but not MDR TB; blue circles, pansusceptible; green circles, unknown drug-susceptibility testing results.

Figure 2. Locations of dwellings within camp for Hmong refugees with tuberculosis (TB), Thailand, February 2005. Symbols indicate dwellings of patients with the following types of TB: red triangles, multidrug-resistant; yellow squares, resistant to >1 anti-TB medications but not MDR TB; blue circles, pansusceptible; green circles, unknown drug-susceptibility testing results.

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