TY - JOUR AU - Wallengren, Kristina AU - Scano, Fabio AU - Nunn, Paul AU - Margot, Bruce AU - Buthelezi, Sandile S.S. AU - Williams, Brian AU - Pym, Alexander AU - Samuel, Elisabeth Y. AU - Mirzayev, Fuad AU - Nkhoma, Wilfred AU - Mvusi, Lindiwe AU - Pillay, Yogan T1 - Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2001–2007 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 10 SP - 1913 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In Africa, incidence and prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis have been assumed to be low. However, investigation after a 2005 outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, found that the incidence rate for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal was among the highest globally and would be higher if case-finding efforts were intensified. KW - XDR TB KW - MDR TB KW - outbreak KW - South Africa KW - incidence KW - tuberculosis KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - drug-resistant KW - extensively drug-resistant KW - multidrug-resistant KW - TB KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - dispatch KW - ultidrug-resistant DO - 10.3201/eid1710.100952 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/10/10-0952_article ER - End of Reference