Tuberculosis in the United States, 2005

The U.S. tuberculosis rate in 2005 was the lowest since the federal government began collecting data on TB in 1953, but the number of cases of multi-drug resistant TB, or MDR-TB, increased for the first time in a decade in 2004, according to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) March 24, 2006, 55(11);305-308. This report is online, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5511a3.htm