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Title: | Bacteriology and drug susceptibility of tuberculosis at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne 1962-1991. |
Authors: | Hurley, James C. Andrew, J. H. |
Issue Date: | 1993 |
Publisher: | Churchill Livingstone |
Place of publication: | Edinburgh |
Publication Title: | Tuberculosis |
Volume: | 74 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page: | 163 |
End Page: | 166 |
Abstract: | 39,000 specimens were examined for the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis over a 27-year period (1962-1989) at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne. The culture positive rate was 2.0% overall but was as high as 3.5% for tissue specimens and less than 1% for specimens of pleural fluid. There were 329 culture positive patients over a 29-year period (1962-1991) of whom 34 (10.5%) yielded an isolate resistant to at least one anti-tuberculosis drug and 19 (5.8%) were resistant to isoniazid. An overall increase in the rate of drug resistance together with important ethnic group differences were noted. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11054/43 |
ISSN: | 0962-8479 |
Internal ID Number: | 00030 |
Health Subject: | DRUG RESISTANCE - MICROBIAL ETHNIC GROUPS HUMANS MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS - DRUG EFFECTS MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS - ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION PLEURAL EFFUSION - MICROBIOLOGY SPUTUM - MICROBIOLOGY STOMACH - MICROBIOLOGY TUBERCULOSIS - ETHNOLOGY TUBERCULOSIS - MICROBIOLOGY URINE - MICROBIOLOGY VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA |
Type: | Journal Article Article |
Appears in Collections: | Research Output |
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