Salfinger M
New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, Albany 12201-0509.
Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax. 1993 Oct 5;82(40):1105-7.
New Yorkers have to deal with a tuberculosis situation which is of greater extent and a health-care system which is less prepared than in the sixties. Poverty and the HIV epidemic have had a negative impact on the control of tuberculosis. The emergence of nosocomial multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has created an explosive situation. In 1991, rifampin resistance was 33% in patients who had received antituberculosis therapy and 10% among the patients who had never been treated.
