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Monoresistance
DEFINITION
Resistance to only one first-line anti-tuberculosis drug.
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SOURCE DEFINITION
Resistance to one antituberculosis drug.
OTHER DEFINITIONS
Resistance to one antituberculosis drug
Tuberculosis in patients whose infecting isolates of M. tuberculosis are confirmed to be resistant in vitro to one firstline anti-tuberculosis drug
Resistance to one first-line anti-TB drug only
Resistance to only one drug
Strain of M. tuberculosis is resistant to one first-line anti-TB medicinea only, out of the first-line anti-TB medicines – isoniazid (H), rifampicin (R), pyrazinamide (Z), ethambutol (E) and streptomycin (S).
Resistance to one first-line anti-TB drug only.
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