Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in women, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Oct;17(10):1942-5. doi: 10.3201/eid1710.110105.

Abstract

To determine whether women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) were more likely than men to have extensively drug-resistant TB, we reviewed 4,514 adults admitted during 2003-2008 for drug-resistant TB. Female sex independently predicted extensively drug-resistant TB, even after we controlled for HIV infection. This association needs further study.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / complications
  • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / epidemiology*
  • Female
  • HIV Infections / complications
  • HIV Infections / drug therapy
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Sex Factors
  • South Africa / epidemiology