This issue of MMWR Recommendations and Reports contains three
reports about tuberculosis (TB), which were stimulated by the
recent
emergence of institutionally based outbreaks of multidrug-resistant
(MDR) TB. A national meeting was held at CDC on January 22-23,
1992,
on "Meeting the Challenge of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis."
Results of the discussions at this meeting (summarized in this
issue)
were an important component in the deliberations of the TB Task
Force
convened by the Director of CDC. The Task Force developed the
"National Action Plan to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis,"
which was first released in limited circulation in April 1992, and
which supplements the 1989 "Strategic Plan for the Elimination of
Tuberculosis in the United States." The Action Plan is now forming
the
basis for strategies at federal, state, and local levels in both
the
public and private sectors. This issue of Recommendations and
Reports
concludes with practical guidelines for clinicians who manage
persons
exposed to patients infected with MDR-TB organisms.
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