From Brigham and Women's Hospital: Use of spatial information to predict multidrug resistance in tuberculosis patients, Peru

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22516236

Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 May;18(5):811-3. doi: 10.3201/eid1805.111467.

Use of spatial information to predict multidrug resistance in tuberculosis patients, Peru.

Lin HH, Shin SS, Contreras C, Asencios L, Paciorek CJ, Cohen T.

Source

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

To determine whether spatiotemporal information could help predict multidrug resistance at the time of tuberculosisdiagnosis, we investigated tuberculosis patients who underwent drug susceptibility testing in Lima, Peru, during 2005-2007. We found that crude representation of spatial location at the level of the health center improved prediction of multidrug resistance.