“…In Belo Horizonte, 1,897 new tuberculosis cases were notified in 2009 (incidence coefficient of 28.88/100.000 inhabitants), with cure rates of 66.2%, treatment abandonment rate of 19.7%, and tuberculosis mortality coefficient of 4.3%, data from the 2009 year. 10 In recent studies developed in the Hospital of Clinics of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (HC/FUMG), a high occurrence of resistant TB (15.3%) was detected, which is similar to data reported in other series analyzing the resistance profile between hospital attended patients 11 …”