title: [Multiresistant tuberculosis in New York].
abstract: New Yorkers have to deal with a tuberculosis situation which is of greater extent and a health-care system which is less prepared than in the sixties. Poverty and the HIV epidemic have had a negative impact on the control of tuberculosis. The emergence of nosocomial multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has created an explosive situation. In 1991, rifampin resistance was 33% in patients who had received antituberculosis therapy and 10% among the patients who had never been treated.
authors.affiliation: New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, Albany 12201-0509.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salfinger
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D000995:Antitubercular Agents; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York / Q000453:epidemiology; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D011203:Poverty; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000453:epidemiology*
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents
vernacular_title: Multiresistente Tuberkulose in New York.