Cases of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis are expected to increase in four countries with a high burden of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis from 2000 to 2040, reported researchers.
According to findings from a compartmental model, the percentage of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among incident cases of tuberculosis will increase to 12.4% (95% prediction interval 9.4 to 16.2) in India, 8.9% (4.5 to 11.7) in the Philippines, 32.5% (27.0 to 35.8) in Russia, and 5.7% (3.0 to 7.6) in South Africa in 2040, reported Aditya Sharma, MD, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and colleagues.
