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Article: Resistant Tuberculosis Strains Sometimes Passed from Adult to Child Contacts.
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- TB & Outbreaks Week
- Article date:
- October 31, 2000
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2000 OCT 31 - (NewsRx.com) --
More often than not, children with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis can trace the source of their tuberculosis to adult contacts with the same type of strain, researchers in South Africa report.
Contact tracing is the key to deciding on the proper drug for treating these children, according to the researchers ("Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis," Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2000;19(8):695-699).
Hendrik S. Schaaf and others at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa conducted a prospective study whereby children who had been in contact with 80 adults with multi-drug resistant (MDR) ...