Contiene referencias bibliográficas

Antimicrobial resistance and Public Health.- Mechanisms of anti-TB drug resistance and factors associated with its emergence.- The threat of drug resistance for TB control.- Methodological framework.- Definitions of drugs resistance.- Survey areas and sampling strategies.- Bacteriological methods.- Collection of data.- statistical procedures-data entry, checking and cleaning.- Statistical analysis.- Validity of the findings.- Prevalence of drug resistance by region.- dynamics of drug resistance prevalence over time (1994-2002).- Potential determinants of drug resistance.- Magnitude of the MDR-TB problem.- Drug resistance patterns.- Proficiency testing in the supranational laboratory network, 1994-2002.- Magnitude of resistance by region.- Ecological analysis.- Burden of MDR.- SRLN.- Drug resistance patterns.