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Pages 381-385 (November - December 1996)
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Vol. 2. Issue 6.
Pages 381-385 (November - December 1996)
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Tuberculose multirresistente – um problema ignorado em Portugal
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H. Peres*, J. Bicó**
* Assistente Hospitalar, Serviço de Patologia Clínica de Patologia Clinica; Laboratório de Microbiologia Hospital de Curry Cabral
** Director de Serviço, Serviço de Patologia Clínica de Patologia Clinica; Laboratório de Microbiologia Hospital de Curry Cabral
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RESUMO

O número crescente do doentes seropositivos (HIV+) com tuberculose, a forte suspeita clínica de resistências à terapêutica antibacilar e a alta taxa de mortalidade destes doentes, levaram a que o Serviço de Patologia Clínica do Hospital de Curry Cabral iniciasse em 1995 o estudo sistemático da fármaco-resistência das estirpes de Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolado em doentes seropositivos. Posteriormeote o estudo foi alargado a todos os doentos em que o bacilo da tuberculose foi isolado, incluindo doentes provenients de outros hospitals, sobretudo da área de Lisboa. Pretendeu-se avaliar a incidência de Tuberculose multirresistente particularmente em doentes seropositivos, conhecer os padrões de resistênocia mais frequentes e alertar para a necessidade urgente de medidas adequadas para o seu control, com especial ênfase para a transmissão nosocomial.

Palavras-chave:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculose multliresistente
SIDA
Tuberculose nosocomial
SUMMARY

In 1995 the Microbiology Department of Hospital de Curry Cabral started systematic drug susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis strains isolated in HIV seropositive patients, due to the increasing number of HIV associated tuberculosis, the clinical suspicion of drug resistance and the high mortality rate. Subsequently, the study included every patient with tuberculosis from this hospital and a few patients from other hospitals in Lisbon. The purpose of this study was to know the incidence of multidrug- resistant tuberculosis in HIV patients, the patterns of drug resistance and emphasize the urgent need for approprite infection control measures to prevent spread of MDR-tb.

Key-words:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mutidrug-resistant tuberculosis
MDR-TB
AIDS
Nocomial tuberculosis
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