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Volume 9, Number 12—December 2003
Research

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype1

Troels Lillebaek*Comments to Author , Åse B. Andersen†, Asger Dirksen‡, Judith R. Glynn§, and Kristin Kremer¶
Author affiliations: *National Institute for Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and Congenital Disorders, Copenhagen, Denmark; †Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; ‡Gentofte University Hospital, Gentofte, Denmark; §London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; ¶National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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Table 2

Proportion of patients with drug-resistant strains

N % Drug resistant (no. of patients with drug resistance)a
Any drug Isoniazid Rifampicin Streptomycin Pyrazinamide Ethambutol MDRb
Danish
Beijing
 16
 12.5 (2)
 12.5 (2)
 6.3 (1)
 12.5 (2)
 0.0 (0)
 6.3 (1)
 6.3 (1)
Other
 1,623
 10.2 (165)
 3.1 (50)
 0.12 (2)
 3.6 (58)
 5.5 (89)
 0.0 (0)
 0.0 (0)
p
0.7
 0.09
 0.03
 0.1
 1.0
 0.01
 0.01
Immigrants
Beijing
 78
 20.5 (16)
 9.0 (7)
 0 (0)
 16.7 (13)
 1.3 (1)
 1.3 (1)
 0.0 (0)
Other
 2,086
 17.2 (359)
 7.5 (157)
 0.72 (15)
 13.6 (284)
 1.3 (27)
 0.96 (20)
 0.58 (12)
p
0.4
 0.7
 1.0
 0.4
 1.0
 0.5
 1.0
Overall
Beijing
 94
 19.2 (18)
 9.6 (9)
 1.1 (1)
 16.0 (15)
 1.1 (1)
 2.1 (2)
 1.1 (1)
Other
 3,709
 14.1 (524)
 5.6 (207)
 0.46 (17)
 9.2 (342)
 3.1 (116)
 0.54 (20)
 0.32 (12)
p 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.05 0.5 0.1 0.3

aDrug resistance data missing for 41 persons.
bMDR, multidrug resistant.

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1Troels Lillebaek was responsible for the grant preparation, study design, execution, data analysis, and writing. Asger Dirksen and Åse B. Andersen supervised all parts of the study and contributed, with Judith Glynn and Kristin Kremer, critical revisions of the paper.

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