Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in Bangladesh Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance in Bangladesh.
DESIGN: Weighted cluster sampling among smear-positive cases, and standard culture and drug susceptibility testing on solid medium were used.
RESULTS: Of 1480 patients enrolled during 2011, 12 falsified multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients were excluded. Analysis included 1340 cases (90.5% of those enrolled) with valid results and ...