The burden of MDR/XDR tuberculosis in coastal plains population of China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We conducted a first baseline survey in Jilin Province of China to determine the proportion of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), and to analyze risk factors associated with the emergence of drug-resistance.

Methodology/principal findings

Thirty counties in Jilin Province were randomly selected as survey sites using a stratified cluster sampling method. People enrolled in the survey were new and re-treated, smear-positive pulmonary TB patients newly enrolled in local TB control and prevention institutions during the survey period. Sputum samples were collected, and the susceptibility of bacterial strains to anti-TB drugs was analyzed by proportion method. Based on the survey results, we estimated the number of drug-resistant TB patients and analyzed the risk factor

SUBMITTER: Yang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4331508 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature