Abstract
The title of Westwater's report 1 Westwater ML Multidrug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa. Lancet. 1996; 347: 1837 Abstract PubMed Google Scholar of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in South Africa implies a representative statement on MDR tuberculosis in South Africa as a whole. In reality, however, the number of tuberculosis patients admitted annually to Nkqubela Chest Hospital represents less than 2% of the annual tuberculosis case load in South Africa. Also, Nkqubela Chest Hospital forms part of our national tuberculosis drug-resistance surveillance programme, which has been conducted since 1965 by the MRC National Tuberculosis Research Programme, and our results from this hospital are quite different.
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