Tuberculosis en la comarca de Lorca: adaptarse o resistir

Abstract

It is necessary improve: the diagnostic of extrapulmonar tuberculosis and avoid loss patient by programs of capture and then the successfully treatments raise. The isoniazide resistant in this area suggest that we must use initial four drug than tree and this manner not raise the drug resistant in the area.

Surveillance of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Spain (2001–2015)

“…13,15,16 With regard to findings for individual anti-TB drugs, resistance to streptomycin (3.0%) was higher than that reported by all except Aznar (16.9%) and Aragó (6.5%); other authors noted rates similar to those obtained here. [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] Resistance to isoniazid (5.3%) exceeded that recorded by any other author except Aznar (7.4%), while the ethambutol resistance rate (0.2%) was lower than those obtained by all except Aragó (3.9%) and Aznar (3.3%). Resistance to rifampicin (1.0%) was also lower than that reported in the literature for Spain; Remacha obtained rates of 3.8%, Aragó 2.6%, and Aznar 2.5%.…”