Abstract
We performed drug susceptibility testing among chronic patients hospitalised in the tuberculosis (TB) referral centre of the capital of Djibouti. Among 36 patients tested, 27 had multidrug-resistant TB and four had extensively drug-resistant TB. National guidelines must be revised urgently and the administration of second-line TB medications strictly controlled.
MeSH terms
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Antitubercular Agents / pharmacology*
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Djibouti / epidemiology
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / drug therapy
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / epidemiology*
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / microbiology
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Humans
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Microbial Sensitivity Tests
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis / drug effects
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Sputum / microbiology
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Tuberculosis / drug therapy
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Tuberculosis / epidemiology*
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Tuberculosis / microbiology
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Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / drug therapy
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Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / epidemiology*
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Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / microbiology