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Volume 21, Number 8—August 2015
Dispatch

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Patients for Whom First-Line Treatment Failed, Mongolia, 2010–2011

Claudia C. DoblerComments to Author , Sarah Korver, Ochirbat Batbayar, Batiargal Nyamdulam, Sodnomdarjaa Oyuntsetseg, Bold Tsolmon, Bazarragchaa Surmaajav, Byambaa Bayarjargal, and Ben J. Marais
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (C.C. Dobler); NHMRC Center of Research Excellence in Tuberculosis Control, University of Sydney, Sydney (C.C. Dobler, B.J. Marais); National Centre for Communicable Diseases, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (S. Korver, O. Batbayar, B. Nyamdulam, S. Oyuntsetseg, B. Tsolmon, B. Surmaajav, B. Bayarjargal); Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney (B.J. Marais)

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Table 1

Characteristics of patients with new sputum smear–positive TB and those for whom first-line treatment failed

Characteristics Patients with new TB cases, no. (%) Patients for whom TB treatment failed, no. (%)* Patients with MDR TB, no. (%)†
All
 1,875 (100)
 156 (8.3)
 54 (34.6)
Sex
M 1,071 (57.1) 96 (9.0) 27 (28.1)
F
 804 (42.9)
 60 (7.5)
 27 (45.0)
Age, y
<15 10 (0.5) 2 (20.0) 1 (50.0)
15–34 1,097 (58.5) 82 (7.5) 38 (46.3)
35–54 611 (32.6) 61 (10.0) 14 (23.0)
≥55 155 (8.3) 11 (7.1) 1 (9.1)
Missing
 2 (0.1)
 0
 0
Occupation
Employed, including self-employed 476 (25.4) 29 (6.1) 16 (55.2)
Unemployed 774 (41.3) 68 (8.8) 19 (27.9)
Retired 123 (6.6) 11 (8.9) 1 (9.1)
Student‡ 240 (12.8) 15 (6.3) 11 (73.3)
School-age§ 58 (3.1) 6 (10.3) 1 (16.7)
On disability pension 70 (3.7) 8 (11.4) 1 (12.5)
In prison 50 (2.7) 8 (16.0) 1 (12.5)
Homeless 63 (3.4) 10 (15.9) 3 (30.0)
Unknown
 21 (1.1)
 1 (4.8)
 1 (100)
Treatment facility/district
Bayangol 222 (11.8) 15 (6.8) 10 (66.7)
Bayanzurkh 392 (20.9) 52 (13.3) 14 (26.9)
Songinokhairkhan 426 (22.7) 28 (6.6) 7 (25.0)
Sukhbaatar 203 (10.8) 10 (4.9) 4 (40.0)
Khan-Uul 176 (9.4) 17 (9.7) 9 (52.9)
Chingeltei 261 (13.9) 13 (5.0) 6 (46.2)
Prison hospital 50 (2.7) 8 (16.0) 1 (12.5)
Enerel, hospital for the homeless 63 (3.4) 10 (15.9) 3 (30.0)
Other¶ 82 (4.4) 3 (3.7) 0

*Percentage of patients with new sputum smear–positive TB.
†MDR TB, multidrug–resistant tuberculosis (resistant to isoniazid and rifampin). Percentage of patients for whom treatment failed.
‡Student, enrolled in higher education or vocational training.
§School-age, enrolled in primary or secondary school.
¶Districts with <50 new sputum smear–positive patients (Baganuur, Nalaikh, Bagakhangai).

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