High prevalence of drug resistance amongst HIV-exposed and -infected children in a tuberculosis prevention trial [Short communication]

Keywords: HIV; children; isoniazid prevention; resistance; tuberculosis

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa 2: Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3: Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit & Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 4: Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA 5: Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa 6: Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Tuberculosis Research/Medical Research Council Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa 7: Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA 8: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA 9: KidCru, Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Publication date: 01 February 2012