Helen Cox a b, Gilles van Cutsem b. The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 9 December 2010
Of the estimated half a million people who develop multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis each year, less than 7% are diagnosed and only 1 in 5 of these have access to effective treatment. 1 To control this epidemic, dramatically increased efforts are required to scale up case detection and treatment provision. In The Lancet , Mercedes Becerra and colleagues 2 report the yield of additional MDR tuberculosis diagnoses that are found by screening household contacts of index cases in Lima, Peru. This stu ...
