Dynamics of Prevalence of Tuberculosis Resistant to Drug Therapy Among Residents of Minsk City for 2011-2015

Abstract

Tuberculosis is a latent infection, which remains one of the biggest threats in the world. According to the World Health Organization in 2015 of 10,4 million people suffered from TB and 1.4 million people died. In this regard, the World Health Organization developed a global strategy «to put an end to tuberculosis» for the period after 2015. The main goal is to end the tuberculosis epidemic. However, a major obstacle to the successful implementation of this plan is the proliferation of drug-resistant tuberculosis forms. In 2015 multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) was affected by 480,000 people, there were 100,000 cases of tuberculosis with resistance to rifampicin. In 2014 MDR-TB killed 190,000 people. The purpose of the work is to characterize the features of the dynamics and structure of the primary incidence of tuberculosis, resistant to drug therapy among Minsk residents in 2011–2015.