TY - JOUR AU - Saleri, Nuccia AU - Badoum, Gisèle AU - Ouedraogo, Martial AU - Dembélé, Sary M. AU - Nacanabo, Rachel AU - Bonkoungou, Victor AU - Cirillo, Daniela AU - Pinsi, Gabriele AU - Matteelli, Alberto T1 - Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Burkina Faso T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 5 SP - 840 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Because data from countries in Africa are limited, we measured the proportion of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) cases among TB patients in Burkina Faso for whom retreatment was failing. Of 34 patients with multidrug-resistant TB, 2 had an XDR TB strain. Second-line TB drugs should be strictly controlled to prevent further XDR TB increase. KW - Tuberculosis KW - drug resistance KW - chronic TB KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - bacteria KW - Burkina Faso KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1605.091262 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/5/09-1262_article ER - End of Reference