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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2009;301(19):1977.

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With the highest prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) ever reported in 13 years of global data collection, the countries of the former Soviet Union face a "serious and widespread epidemic" of MDR-TB, according to an international team of scientists with the Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance (Wright A et al. Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60331-7 [published online April 15, 2009]).

The findings, based on data gathered from more than 90 000 patients in 83 countries between 2002 and 2007, indicate that former Soviet states reported the highest prevalence of resistance. The percentage of TB cases that were MDR-TB ranged between 7% and 22% in some former Soviet states and cities, including 19% in Moldova and 22% in Baku, Azerbaijan. Two areas in China also had rates of about 7%. In high-income countries, the percentage of TB cases that were MDR-TB was 1% or less.

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