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Abstract
Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Strains in National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory Between 2005 And 2010, Turkey
Ismail Ceyhan, Hülya Simsek, Ahmet Arslanturk, Nurhan Albayrak, Figen Sezen and Gülnur Tarhan
Frequency, rate and trend of extensively drug-resistant [XDR] tuberculosis [TB] in Turkey are not clear and not known very well. In this study, it was aimed to try to determine and to confirm the frequency of XDR-TB strains among Multi-Drug Resistant [MDR] TB cases. A total of 4119 M. tuberculosis strains were analyzed. The strains were collected from 19 TB centers [hospitals or regional TB laboratories] including National TB Reference Laboratory [NTRL]. Two hundred ninety-seven 297 [7.2%] M. tuberculosis strains were detected as MDR-TB. Among all MDRTB cases, 37 [12.5%] were pre-XDR-TB, and 8 [2.7%] were XDR-TB.