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Extensively resistant tuberculosis: Four cases in the Republic of Congo Volume 28, issue 3, Juillet-Août-Septembre 2018

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1 Service de pneumologie, CHU de Brazzaville, Faculté des sciences de la santé, Université Marien Ngouabi, Programme national de lutte contre la tuberculose, 242 Brazzaville, Congo
2 Programme national de lutte contre la tuberculose, Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo
* Correspondance

Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is currently a major public health problem in most developing countries, including the Republic of Congo, where antituberculosis agents are repeatedly unavailable. We report four cases from by the National Program for Tuberculosis Control in collaboration with its National Reference Laboratory (NRL) of the Republic of Congo. The presence of these highly resistant strains causes therapeutic problems (treatment depends on the profile of individual mutations and the unavailability of new drugs) and public health (major risk of spread of the disease in the community).