Drug resistance in extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in South Korea: comparison with pulmonary tuberculosis
Jeongha Mok, Bo Hyoung Kang, H-J. Kim, Sang-Il Lee, Taehoon Lee, H. K. Lee, Y. J. Cho, Doosoo Jeon
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2019-01
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To compare the prevalence of and trends in drug resistance in extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) and pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). METHODS: We retrospectively analysed the results of phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) in culture-confirmed TB patients from January 2010 to December 2014 at seven university hospitals in South Korea. RESULTS: 0.001, respectively). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of and trends in drug resistance among new patients are not significantly different between patients with EPTB and those with PTB.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis
- Drug resistance
- Internal medicine
- Drug resistant tuberculosis
- Drug
- Multiple drug resistance