TY - JOUR AU - Shah, N. Sarita AU - Richardson, Jessica AU - Moodley, Prashini AU - Moodley, Salona AU - Babaria, Palav AU - Ramtahal, Melissa AU - Heysell, Scott K. AU - Li, Xuan AU - Moll, Anthony P. AU - Friedland, Gerald AU - Sturm, A. Willem AU - Gandhi, Neel R. T1 - Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 3 SP - 510 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We expanded second-line tuberculosis (TB) drug susceptibility testing for extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from South Africa. Of 19 patients with extensively drug-resistant TB identified during February 2008–April 2009, 13 (68%) had isolates resistant to all 8 drugs tested. This resistance leaves no effective treatment with available drugs in South Africa. KW - Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - HIV KW - drug resistance KW - second-line drugs KW - South Africa KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1703.101363 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/3/10-1363_article ER - End of Reference