Failure to complete Tuberculosis therapy

• 89% of 189 patients failed to complete therapy

• 80% of those brought back to therapy failed again

  Brudney and Dobkin,1991
  

• INH/RIF resistance in NYC 23% in 1991

• Now INH/RIF resistance in NYC 4.7% among new cases

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