| antituberculosis drug-resistance surveillance as a tool for tuberculosis control programmes: a retrospective study. | the aim of this study was to verify the suitability of antituberculosis (antitb) drug-resistance surveillance as a tool for tuberculosis (tb) control programmes at local level. a retrospective study reviewing laboratory records and medical records of tb patients referred to udine hospital between 1981 and 1995 was analysed. the initial susceptibility pattern for each mycobacterium tuberculosis isolate was recorded. it was found that between 1981 and 1995, 899 m. tuberculosis strains underwent su ... | 1997 | 9510665 |