Year of the first report of multidrug‐resistant (MDR) tuberculosis patients, 1992–1999
| Year | Total MDR patients n | Cases reported for the first time n | |||||||
| 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | ||
| 1992 | 48 | 48 | |||||||
| 1993 | 40 | 7 | 33 | ||||||
| 1994 | 58 | 8 | 6 | 44 | |||||
| 1995 | 40 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 26 | ||||
| 1996 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 22 | |||
| 1997 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 18 | ||
| 1998 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 31 | |
| 1999 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 44 |
| Total | 328 | ||||||||