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Informative Worldwide Briefs
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following materials has been adapted [copied] from Disease Weekly Plus, 11/24/97-12/1/97,
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(This site was last visited on 12/18/02)
An increase in drug resistant tuberculosis among border residents of Mexico's Baja California represents a potential threat to those living nearby in the United States, according to a report from the San Diego County Department of Health.
"A high proportion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from this group of Baja California patients were resistant to at least one primary drug," researcher Christopher Peter and colleagues wrote in an abstract presented at the American Society for Microbiology's 37th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), held September 28 to October 1, 1997, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. "Contact between tuberculosis patients in Tijuana and residents of San Diego county occurred frequently."
There are reliable data available on incidence of drug-resistant disease among tuberculosis patients residing in San Diego County in the U.S., but very little data have been available on drug-resistant tuberculosis in the nearby cities within Baja California (BC), Mexico. Next...
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