Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in admitted patients at a tertiary referral hospital of Bangladesh.
BACKGROUND: This study was set out to investigate the magnitude, patterns and molecular characterization of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains at a tertiary referral hospital in Bangladesh. METHODS: Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients admitted at National Institute of Diseases of the...
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| author | Sayera Banu Asif Mujtaba Mahmud Md Toufiq Rahman Arman Hossain Mohammad Khaja Mafij Uddin Tahmeed Ahmed Razia Khatun Wahiduzzaman Akhanda Roland Brosch |
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| description | BACKGROUND: This study was set out to investigate the magnitude, patterns and molecular characterization of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains at a tertiary referral hospital in Bangladesh. METHODS: Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients admitted at National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital from February 2002 to September 2005 with or without previous history of TB and/or other complications were randomly interviewed. Among 265 participants enrolled, M. tuberculosis isolates from 189 patients were finally tested for susceptibility to rifampicin (RMP), isoniazid (INH), ethambutol (ETM) and streptomycin (STM). Genotyping of M. tuberculosis was done using deletion analysis and spoligotyping. RESULTS: Eighty-eight percent (n = 167) of the patients had history of previous anti-TB treatment while the remaining 12% were new TB cases. Of the 189 isolates, 9% were fully susceptible to the first line anti-TB drugs and 73.5% were multi-drug resistant TB. Other susceptibility results showed 79.4%, 77.2%, 76.7% and 78.8% resistance to INH, RMP, ETM and STM respectively. Multi-drug resistance was significantly higher among the 130 (78%) patients with previous history of anti-tuberculosis treatment (95% confidence interval, p = 0.001). Among the 189 analyzed isolates, 69% were classified as "modern" M. tuberculosis strains (i.e. TbD1- strains, lacking the M. tuberculosis-deletion region TbD1), whereas the remaining 31% were found to belong to the "ancestal" TbD1+ M. tuberculosis lineages. One hundred and five different spoligotype patterns were identified in which 16 clusters contained 100 strains and 89 strains had unique pattern. Strains with a spoligotype characteristic for the "Beijing" cluster were predominant (19%) and most of these strains (75%) were multi-drug resistant (MDR). CONCLUSIONS: A high level of drug resistance observed among the re-treatment patients poses a threat of transmission of resistant strains to susceptible persons in the community. Proper counseling of patients and attention towards the completion of the anti-TB treatment is needed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c22879f75030464494e69cca9f0d619a2022-12-21T19:07:36ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0177e4054510.1371/journal.pone.0040545Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in admitted patients at a tertiary referral hospital of Bangladesh.Sayera BanuAsif Mujtaba MahmudMd Toufiq RahmanArman HossainMohammad Khaja Mafij UddinTahmeed AhmedRazia KhatunWahiduzzaman AkhandaRoland BroschBACKGROUND: This study was set out to investigate the magnitude, patterns and molecular characterization of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains at a tertiary referral hospital in Bangladesh. METHODS: Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients admitted at National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital from February 2002 to September 2005 with or without previous history of TB and/or other complications were randomly interviewed. Among 265 participants enrolled, M. tuberculosis isolates from 189 patients were finally tested for susceptibility to rifampicin (RMP), isoniazid (INH), ethambutol (ETM) and streptomycin (STM). Genotyping of M. tuberculosis was done using deletion analysis and spoligotyping. RESULTS: Eighty-eight percent (n = 167) of the patients had history of previous anti-TB treatment while the remaining 12% were new TB cases. Of the 189 isolates, 9% were fully susceptible to the first line anti-TB drugs and 73.5% were multi-drug resistant TB. Other susceptibility results showed 79.4%, 77.2%, 76.7% and 78.8% resistance to INH, RMP, ETM and STM respectively. Multi-drug resistance was significantly higher among the 130 (78%) patients with previous history of anti-tuberculosis treatment (95% confidence interval, p = 0.001). Among the 189 analyzed isolates, 69% were classified as "modern" M. tuberculosis strains (i.e. TbD1- strains, lacking the M. tuberculosis-deletion region TbD1), whereas the remaining 31% were found to belong to the "ancestal" TbD1+ M. tuberculosis lineages. One hundred and five different spoligotype patterns were identified in which 16 clusters contained 100 strains and 89 strains had unique pattern. Strains with a spoligotype characteristic for the "Beijing" cluster were predominant (19%) and most of these strains (75%) were multi-drug resistant (MDR). CONCLUSIONS: A high level of drug resistance observed among the re-treatment patients poses a threat of transmission of resistant strains to susceptible persons in the community. Proper counseling of patients and attention towards the completion of the anti-TB treatment is needed.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3394739?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Sayera Banu Asif Mujtaba Mahmud Md Toufiq Rahman Arman Hossain Mohammad Khaja Mafij Uddin Tahmeed Ahmed Razia Khatun Wahiduzzaman Akhanda Roland Brosch Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in admitted patients at a tertiary referral hospital of Bangladesh. PLoS ONE |
| title | Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in admitted patients at a tertiary referral hospital of Bangladesh. |
| title_full | Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in admitted patients at a tertiary referral hospital of Bangladesh. |
| title_fullStr | Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in admitted patients at a tertiary referral hospital of Bangladesh. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in admitted patients at a tertiary referral hospital of Bangladesh. |
| title_short | Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in admitted patients at a tertiary referral hospital of Bangladesh. |
| title_sort | multidrug resistant tuberculosis in admitted patients at a tertiary referral hospital of bangladesh |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3394739?pdf=render |
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