The tip of the iceberg: Alarming increase in the detection of MDR-TB

Abstract

In this issue of SARJ, Narsingh et al.[1] highlight the alarming and burgeoning problem of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).[2] More recently, this has been supplanted by an increasing burden of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB),[3] and resistance beyond XDR-TB.[3] The problem of programmatically incurable TB and its spread, in our communities, from home-discharged index cases has recently been highlighted.