%0 Journal Article %J The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease %D 2012 %T Risk factors for mortality among MDR- and XDR-TB patients in a high HIV prevalence setting. %A Gandhi, N R %A Andrews, J R %A Brust, J C M %A Montreuil, R %A Weissman, D %A Heo, M %A Moll, A P %A Friedland, G H %A Shah, N S %K Adult %K AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections %K Anti-Retroviral Agents %K Antitubercular Agents %K CD4 Lymphocyte Count %K Coinfection %K Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial %K Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis %K Female %K HIV Infections %K Humans %K Male %K Markov Chains %K Monte Carlo Method %K Prevalence %K Prognosis %K Proportional Hazards Models %K Retrospective Studies %K Risk Assessment %K Risk Factors %K South Africa %K Survival Analysis %K Time Factors %K Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant %K Tuberculosis, Pulmonary %N 1 %P 90-7 %R 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3181fbc94f %V 16 %X Recent studies suggest that the prevalence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in sub-Saharan Africa may be rising. This is of concern, as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection in multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB has been associated with exceedingly high mortality rates. %8 2012 Jan