TY - JOUR AU - Lin, Hsien-Ho AU - Shin, Sonya AU - Contreras, Carmen AU - Asencios, Luis AU - Paciorek, Christopher AU - Cohen, Ted T1 - Use of Spatial Information to Predict Multidrug Resistance in Tuberculosis Patients, Peru T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2012 VL - 18 IS - 5 SP - 811 SN - 1080-6059 AB - To determine whether spatiotemporal information could help predict multidrug resistance at the time of tuberculosis diagnosis, we investigated tuberculosis patients who underwent drug susceptibility testing in Lima, Peru, during 2005–2007. We found that crude representation of spatial location at the level of the health center improved prediction of multidrug resistance. KW - Tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - TB KW - tuberculosis KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - multidrug resistance KW - MDR KW - multidrug-resistant KW - geographic information systems KW - GIS KW - drug susceptibility testing KW - DST KW - Peru KW - Lima DO - 10.3201/eid1805.111467 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/5/11-1467_article ER - End of Reference