Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Kansas, 2021-2022.

An outbreak of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) involved 13 persons in four households in a low-income, under-resourced urban Kansas community during November 2021-November 2022. A majority of the seven adults identified in the Kansas outbreak were born outside the United States in a country that had experienced an MDR TB outbreak with the same genotype during 2007-2009, whereas most of the six children in the Kansas outbreak were U.S.-born. Prompt identification, evaluation, and treatment of persons with MDR TB and their contacts is essential to limiting transmission.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

All authors have completed and submitted the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. Barbara J. Seaworth reports consultant fees from Wyandotte County, Kansas for complicated tuberculosis (TB) patient management paid to the University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center and serving as an uncompensated co-chair of the Community Research Advisory Group for CDC’s Tuberculosis Trials Consortium. Erin A. Corriveau reports speaking at Pacific Islands Tuberculosis Controllers Association Conference about the current outbreak and the Kansas City TB program and funding from the Heartland National Tuberculosis Center to attend the Pacific Islands Tuberculosis Controllers Association conference. Lisa Y. Armitige reports receipt of an honorarium from the American Academy of HIV Medicine for writing a chapter, and participation on the Advisory Counsel for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (2014–2021). Kimberly D. Winans reports funding from Heartland National Tuberculosis Center and travel reimbursement from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. No other potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.