TY - JOUR AU - Dobler, Claudia AU - Korver, Sarah AU - Batbayar, Ochirbat AU - Nyamdulam, Batiargal AU - Oyuntsetseg, Sodnomdarjaa AU - Tsolmon, Bold AU - Surmaajav, Bazarragchaa AU - Bayarjargal, Byambaa AU - Marais, Ben T1 - Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Patients for Whom First-Line Treatment Failed, Mongolia, 2010–2011 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2015 VL - 21 IS - 8 SP - 1451 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) was diagnosed for more than a third of new sputum smear–positive tuberculosis patients for whom treatment had failed. This finding suggests a significant risk for community-acquired MDR TB and a need to make rapid molecular drug susceptibility testing available to more people. KW - tuberculosis KW - multidrug-resistant tuberculosis KW - treatment failure KW - category I treatment KW - drug susceptibility testing KW - new sputum smear-positive patients KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - bacteria KW - respiratory infections KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - Mongolia DO - 10.3201/eid2108.141860 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/8/14-1860_article ER - End of Reference