Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among male inmates in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Hospital Evandro Chagas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes. Departamento de Microbiologia Médica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes. Departamento de Microbiologia Médica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Abstract

Susceptibility tests to six anti-tuberculosis drugs were performed on fifty-eight M. tuberculosis isolates obtained from tuberculous inmates in the Male Penal Sanatorium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The rate of resistant tuberculosis was higher than that observed in the community. The overall resistance rate was 17.2% and 3.4% of the isolates were multi-drug resistant.

Keywords

Multi-drug resistance
M. tuberculosis
Prisons

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Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia

Citation

LOURENÇO, Maria Cristina da Silva; SILVA, Marlei Gomes da; FONSECA, Leila de Souza. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among male inmates in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, v. 31, n.1, p. 17-19, Jan./Mar. 2000.

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10.1590/S1517-83822000000100005

ISSN

1517-8382

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/33157

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2020-05-21

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