Situação da tuberculose multirresistente no estado do Amazonas-Brasil

Abstract

Tuberculosis is an endemic disease of great importance to public health since the 1980, has had a significant change in their pattern of incidence and mortality due to advent of the epidemic with HIV. Recently, the increase in reported cases of drug resistance, has also contributed to the worsening of the disease, thus constituting one of the main problems that hinder the control of this disease at present, due to the impact it makes on the duration and cost of treatment. This paper addresses the issue of multidrug resistance in the context of the Amazon, which has the highest incidence rates among all states of the Brazilian federation. The study was developed in three stages corresponding to the goals set resulting papers. The first item corresponds to the product of the analysis of the database Sinan, treating the data Completeness of tuberculosis in Amazonas, in the period 2001-2010, comparing municipalities priority and non-priority. The second article discusses the issue of TB / HIV and its probable influence on the development of drug resistance, through a systematic review of scientific literature nationally and internationally. The third article is a descriptive cross-sectional study, referring to cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis reported in the state of Amazonas during the period 2006-2012.