title: [Drug resistance in patients with tuberculosis in Poland in the years 1966-1992. A test for evaluating the scale of the problem].
abstract: The study analysed the incidence of subjects with tuberculosis who were sputum positive and with at least one drug resistance of the bacilli was observed. The number of such cases in the total population of sputum positive cases in the years 1966-1992. In this period a marked decrease of patients with drug resistance was noticed, from 68/100,000 in 1966 to 1.1/100,000 in 1992. The rate of decline was observed to be decreasing in the last years. Patients with drug resistance comprised 32.5% of all sputum positive patients in 1966 and 4.4% in 1992. The decrease in the number and the percentage of drug resistant cases was observed parallelly to the general trend of better mass chemotherapy efficacy.
authors.affiliation: Zakładu Epidemiologii i Organizacji Walki z Gruźlica, Instytutu Gruźlicy i Chorób Płuc.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Szczuka
mesh_terms: D015331:Cohort Studies; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D013045:Species Specificity; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology
vernacular_title: Lekooporność wśród chorych na gruźlice w Polsce w latach 1966-1992. Próba oceny skali problemu.