Drug-resistant TB on the rise
October 1, 1997 less than 1 minute read
Drug-resistant TB on the rise
More drug-resistant tuberculosis is increasingly showing up in other parts of the country than in past years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Drug-resistant TB cases have held steady and even declined in some areas, but they have been found now in 42 states, up from 13 states only five years ago, the CDC reports in the Sept. 9 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"It’s not the states we would expect. It’s not New York, New Jersey, Texas, and California," says Lee Reichman, MD, executive director of the New Jersey Medical School National Tuberculosis Center in Newark. Rather, southern and midwestern states are reporting drug-resistant cases, he adds.
From 1993 to 1996, 1,457 of 93,449 cases of TB were resistant to one or more drugs. About 38% of the drug-resistant cases came from New York City. Cases, however, have decreased there dramatically.
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