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Previous Volume 334:267-269 January 25, 1996 Number 4 Next

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To the Editor: Telzak et al. (Oct. 5 issue)¹ report on a series of persons in New York city who had multidrug-resistant tuberculosis but were not infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The authors conclude that "contrary to previous reports, [such] patients can be expected to respond to appropriate chemotherapy." This is good news, but a casual reading of the article may well be misleading.

Telzak et al. contrast their results with those of our study in Denver in 1993,² but there are critical differences between these two series. Although both involve multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (i.e., disease resistant to isoniazid . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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