Open AccessFeasibility of surveillance resistance to antituberculosis drugs :Europe, 1997
Author(s) -
V Schwoebel,
D Antoine,
J Veen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
euro surveillance/eurosurveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.05.04.00036-en
Subject(s) - medicine , drug resistance , tuberculosis , virology , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology
Between 28% and 100% of isolates from ten countries from the EuroTB network in 1997 were reported with data on antituberculosis drug susceptibility. Drug resistance was commoner among foreign-born patients and in general among patients who had been treate