Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a hospital--Jersey City, New Jersey, 1990-1992.
Since 1986 (the first full year following implementation of the revised tuberculosis [TB] surveillance case definition), the reported rate of TB per 100,000 persons in New Jersey increased from 9.5 cases to 12.6 cases in 1992. Of the 984 cases reported to CDC from New Jersey in 1992, 108 (11.0%) were reported from Jersey City (1990 population: 230,300)--the city ranked second in number of TB cases reported and fourth in rate of TB (46.9 per 100,000) in the state. In addition, in 1992, the rate of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) (i.e., Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates resistant to at least isoniazid [INH] and rifampin [RIF]) among TB patients in New Jersey was 5%; the rate in Jersey City was 13%. To characterize the epidemiologic features of persons with drug-resistant TB, the New Jersey Department of Health and the Infectious Diseases Division of the Jersey City Medical Center conducted a study among patients treated at that hospital during 1990-1992. This report presents the findings of the study and compares the hospital's rates of drug-resistant TB with previously reported rates, rates for other cities in New Jersey, and rates for the state.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009515:New Jersey / Q000453:epidemiology; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000453:epidemiology*