Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment failure detection depends on monitoring interval and microbiological method

Debate persists about monitoring method (culture or smear) and interval (monthly or less frequently) during treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). We analysed existing data and estimated the effect of monitoring strategies on timing of failure detection. We identified studies repor...

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Published in:Eur Respir J
Main Authors: Mitnick, Carole D., White, Richard A., Lu, Chunling, Rodriguez, Carly A., Bayona, Jaime, Becerra, Mercedes C., Burgos, Marcos, Centis, Rosella, Cohen, Theodore, Cox, Helen, D'Ambrosio, Lia, Danilovitz, Manfred, Falzon, Dennis, Gelmanova, Irina Y., Gler, Maria T., Grinsdale, Jennifer A., Holtz, Timothy H., Keshavjee, Salmaan, Leimane, Vaira, Menzies, Dick, Migliori, Giovanni Battista, Milstein, Meredith B., Mishustin, Sergey P., Pagano, Marcello, Quelapio, Maria I., Shean, Karen, Shin, Sonya S., Tolman, Arielle W., van der Walt, Martha L., Van Deun, Armand, Viiklepp, Piret
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: European Respiratory Society 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045442/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27587552
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00462-2016
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