... Gilman,†‡# and the Working Group on TB in Peru1*University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;†Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore,Maryland, ... multidrug-resistant(MDR) TB, and characteristics of TB on a female general medicine ward in Peru. Of 250patients, 40 (16%) were positive by sputum culture and 27 (11%) by smear, and 8 (3%)had MDRTB. ... founded as a women’s hospitalin the eighteenth century and continues to serveHospital Control and Multidrug-ResistantPulmonary Tuberculosis in Female Patients, Lima, PeruField F. Willingham*†‡ Tracy...