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A city-wide outbreak of a multiple-drug-resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in New York.

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1997

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Andrew R. Moss, David Alland, Edward E. Telzak, Dial Hewlett, Victoria Sharp, Philippe Chiliade, Vincent J. LaBombardi, D Kabus, Bruce A. Hanna, Luigi Palumbo,
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Abstract

Because recommended four-drug therapy will not sterilise this very resistant strain, there was a city-wide nosocomial outbreak of W-strain TB in the early 1990s among New York AIDS patients. Other frequently seen strains were either also very resistant, or, surprisingly, pansusceptible. Individual MDR strains can be spread widely in situations where AIDS and TB are both common.