Early interventions for diabetes related tuberculosis associate with hastened sputum microbiological clearance in Virginia, USA

BACKGROUND: Diabetes complicates tuberculosis (TB) treatment including a prolonged time of sputum culture conversion to negative growth. Since 2013 in Virginia, interventions early in the treatment course have used therapeutic drug monitoring and dose correction for isoniazid and rifampin after 2 we...

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Published in:BMC Infect Dis
Main Authors: Alkabab, Yosra, Keller, Suzanne, Dodge, Denise, Houpt, Eric, Staley, Deborah, Heysell, Scott
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5294910/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28166721
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2226-y
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