Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in a Northern District of Karnataka, South India.

Abstract

Tuberculosis continues to be a major public health problem in most of the developing world. Further, emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis has become a challenging problem in the management of the disease and tuberculosis control programmes. This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence rate of multi drug-resistance and analyze drug resistance pattern in new pulmonary tuberculosis cases.