Treatment Outcomes for Adolescents With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Lima, Peru

Treatment outcomes for adolescents with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are rarely reported and, to date, have been poor. Among 90 adolescents from Lima, Peru, 68 (75.6%) achieved cure or completion of treatment. Unsuccessful treatment was less common in the Peru cohort than previously described in...

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Autores principales: Tierney, Dylan B., Milstein, Meredith B., Manjourides, Justin, Furin, Jennifer J., Mitnick, Carole D.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5084611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27826599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X16674382
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spelling pubmed-50846112016-11-08 Treatment Outcomes for Adolescents With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Lima, Peru Tierney, Dylan B. Milstein, Meredith B. Manjourides, Justin Furin, Jennifer J. Mitnick, Carole D. Glob Pediatr Health Original Article Treatment outcomes for adolescents with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are rarely reported and, to date, have been poor. Among 90 adolescents from Lima, Peru, 68 (75.6%) achieved cure or completion of treatment. Unsuccessful treatment was less common in the Peru cohort than previously described in the literature. SAGE Publications 2016-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5084611/ /pubmed/27826599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X16674382 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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