Discordant drug susceptibility for mycobacterium tuberculosis within families.
James A Seddon;
Annemie M Jordaan;
Thomas C Victor;
H Simon Schaaf;
(2012)
Discordant drug susceptibility for mycobacterium tuberculosis within families.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 31 (7).
pp. 783-785.
ISSN 0891-3668
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3182567c20
Children with presumed tuberculosis who are in contact with a multidrug-resistant source case should be treated according to the drug susceptibility of the source case's isolate. However, it is important to obtain a microbiologic diagnosis as it is possible for the child to have a different susceptibility profile to the source case. We present 2 such cases.
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ISI | 305708300030 |