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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Autores principales: 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
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Respiratory Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5045442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27587552
http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00462-2016

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