World Health Organization reports highest rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis to date

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doi:10.2807/ese.13.12.08077-en

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World Health Organization reports highest rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis to date
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Affiliations: ¹ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

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Citation style for this article: Editorial team Collective. World Health Organization reports highest rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis to date. Euro Surveill. 2008;13(12):pii=8077. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.12.08077-en

Abstract

On 26 February 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its fourth report on the global situation regarding drug resistance in tuberculosis (TB). The report, based on information collected between 2002 and 2006 on 90,000 TB patients in 81 countries, found that 5.3% of the nine million new cases of TB each year are multidrug-resistant (MDR). This is the highest rate yet recorded.