Prevalencia de tuberculosis multidrogoresistente en pacientes adultos de sexo femenino y masculino de 30 a 50 años que acuden al Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil Los Ceibos desde enero del 2018 hasta septiembre del 2023.

Abstract

Introduction: Globally, tuberculosis continues to be a public health problem that is increasing every year. In 2021, the World Health Organization estimated that in the world there were 10.6 million people sick with tuberculosis, in the Americas in the same year it was estimated 309,00 cases of which 215,116 were diagnosed, representing 70%. In 2019, the Pan American Health Organization estimated that there were 465,000 new cases of RifampicinResistant Tuberculosis (RR-TB)/Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in the world. Methodology: A cross-sectional, descriptive, observational, retrospective and analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in adult patients diagnosed with tuberculosis, attended at the General del Norte hospital in Guayaquil, during the period 2018-2023. Results: We analyzed 231 patients who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the most frequent sex that presented MDR TB was male with a percentage of 56%; while the female sex represented 44%. The age range of patients who developed MDR TB was between 46-50 years with 36%. Patients with primary education who developed MDR TB accounted for 44% of the sample, followed by patients with secondary education with 33%. Informal work was also an important risk factor for the development of this pathology with 50%. Sixty-seven percent of the patients presented treatment failure of both first-line antituberculosis drug regimen 1 and regimen 2.