Influence of Diabetes Mellitus on the Development of Multi Drug Resistant-Tuberculosis in Yogyakarta.

CONCLUSION: there was a significant correlation between diabetes mellitus and MDR-TB development. Therefore, it is suggested that clinicians at all levels of health care service should conduct any kind of screening test for MDR-TB in such group of patients. Further prospective cohort study is needed to confirm the findings of this preliminary study. PMID: 29686171 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Acta medica Indonesiana - Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Acta Med Indones Source Type: research