Tuberculosis Drug Resistance and HIV Infection, the Netherlands
Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 May;13(5):776-8
Catharina Hendrika Haar,*† Frank G.J. Cobelens,
*‡ Comments to Author Nico A. Kalisvaart,* Jan J. van der Have,† Paul J.H.J. van
Gerven,* and Dick van Soolingen§
*KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, the Netherlands; †Municipal Health Service, Groningen, the Netherlands; ‡Academic Medial Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and §National Institute of Public Health and the
Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
In the Netherlands during 1993–2001, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among newly diagnosed patients was more frequent in those with HIV coinfection (5/308, 1.6%) than in those with no HIV infection (39/646, 0.6%; adjusted odds ratio 3.43, p=0.015). Four of the 5 patients coinfected with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV were foreign-born. DNA fingerprint analysis suggested that transmission had occurred outside the Netherlands.
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