FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 359:636-638 August 7, 2008 Number 6 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Letters Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear Related Article by Mitnick, C. D. PubMed Citation

As of June 2008, a total of 49 countries worldwide reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) at least one case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. Since its first description in March 2006,¹ this disease has become the most alarming issue in international tuberculosis control and one that seriously risks compromising the progress observed in many countries over the past decade.² Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, which is especially frequent among drug-resistant cases in the former Soviet Union, has been linked with very poor treatment outcomes and deemed potentially untreatable in both developing and rich countries.³

Initial evidence has come from observations among . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Source Information

From the Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva.

Related Letters:

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Dheda K., Shean K., Badri M., Cheruvu M., Bhadriraju S., Mitnick C. D., Bayona J., Becerra M. C.
Extract | Full Text | PDF  
N Engl J Med 2008; 359:2390-2391, Nov 27, 2008. Correspondence

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Dheda, K., Shean, K., Badri, M., Cheruvu, M., Bhadriraju, S., Mitnick, C. D., Bayona, J., Becerra, M. C. (2008). Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis. NEJM 359: 2390-2391 [Full Text]  
• Shah, N. S., Pratt, R., Armstrong, L., Robison, V., Castro, K. G., Cegielski, J. P. (2008). Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the United States, 1993-2007. JAMA 300: 2153-2160 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
• (2008). Individualized Treatment of XDR-TB. JWatch Infect. Diseases 2008: 1-1 [Full Text]