DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY IN MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS OF A SAMPLE OF PATIENTS IN GUINEA-BISSAU

Authors
DIAS F MICHAEL SG HOFFNER SE MARTINS L NORBERG R KALLENIUS G
Citation
F. Dias et al., DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY IN MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS OF A SAMPLE OF PATIENTS IN GUINEA-BISSAU, Tubercle and lung disease, 74(2), 1993, pp. 129-130
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Tubercle and lung disease → ACNP
ISSN journal
09628479
Volume
74
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
129 - 130
Database
ISI
SICI code
0962-8479(1993)74:2<129:DSIMOA>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Sputum samples from patients with known or suspected tuberculosis were collected in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, and isolates belonging to the Myc obacterium tuberculosis complex (M. tuberculosis, M. bovis or M. afric anum) were examined for their susceptibility to the 4 drugs streptomyc in, isoniazid, ethambutol and rifampicin. Of 59 M. tuberculosis comple x isolates only 2 were resistant to any of the drugs (isoniazid). Thus there is little resistance to these first line drugs among M. tubercu losis isolates from patients in Guinea Bissau.