Worldwide Incidence of Multidrug‐Resistant Tuberculosis | Zendy

Christopher Dye | Zendy; Marcos Espinal | Zendy; Catherine Watt | Zendy; Cyrille Mbiaga | Zendy; Brian Williams | Zendy

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Worldwide Incidence of Multidrug‐Resistant Tuberculosis

Author(s) -

Christopher Dye,

Marcos Espinal,

Catherine Watt,

Cyrille Mbiaga,

Brian Williams

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

the journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69

H-Index - 252

eISSN - 1537-6613

pISSN - 0022-1899

DOI - 10.1086/339818

Subject(s) - tuberculosis , medicine , extensively drug resistant tuberculosis , multiple drug resistance , incidence (geometry) , confidence interval , drug resistance , environmental health , mycobacterium tuberculosis , biology , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , optics

Planning for tuberculosis (TB) control requires an assessment of the number and distribution of drug-resistant cases. This study used results of resistance surveys from 64 countries, together with data predictive of resistance rates from 72 others, to estimate the number of new multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB cases that occurred in 2000. By these methods, an estimated 273,000 (95% confidence limits, 185,000 and 414,000) new cases of MDR TB occurred worldwide in 2000, 3.2% of all new TB cases. The analysis provides the first comprehensive set of estimates of the MDR TB burden by country and globally.

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