Promising of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Screening among New Tuberculosis Patients in China

Abstract

[1] reported that the MDR-TB burden among the new tuberculosis (TB) patients accounted for more than 1/4th of all multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) cases in the past 5 years in Zhejiang province, although the identified rate of MDR-TB among 9830 new TB cases was only 2.0%. The "13th Five-Year Plan" of China NTP promised that all suspected pulmonary TB patients will be provided for sputum smear and culture examination and drug-resistance will be of course screened for etiologically positive pulmonary TB patients, including both new TB and those at high risk of MDR-TB.