Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis
- Samuel W. Dooley, MD;
- William R. Jarvis, MD;
- William J. Marione, MD; and
- Dixie E. Snider, Jr., MD, MPH
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As recently as 10 years ago, tuberculosis was rapidly disappearing from the United States. Reported cases of tuberculosis were decreasing an average of almost 6% each year, from over 84 000 cases in 1953 to 22 255 cases in 1984. Beginning in 1985, however, the decades-long decline in tuberculosis cases reversed dramatically, and from 1985 to 1991, an 18.4% increase was noted in reported cases (1) (Centers for Disease Control [CDC]. Unpublished data). One reason for this reversal is reactivation of latent tuberculous infection in persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (2, 3).
Against this background of the increasing
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