Strategies for Successful Treatment of Active Tuberculosis in the Setting of DRESS on RIPE

We describe 2 young, female patients who developed drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome while on treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Active TB was treated successfully with second-line TB medications, including moxifloxacin, ethambutol, linezolid, and amikaci...

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Autores principales: Kizilbash, Quratulain, Vasquez, Adriana, Seaworth, Barbara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5888662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29644252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy062
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description We describe 2 young, female patients who developed drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome while on treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Active TB was treated successfully with second-line TB medications, including moxifloxacin, ethambutol, linezolid, and amikacin for 18 months.
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spelling pubmed-58886622018-04-11 Strategies for Successful Treatment of Active Tuberculosis in the Setting of DRESS on RIPE Kizilbash, Quratulain Vasquez, Adriana Seaworth, Barbara Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We describe 2 young, female patients who developed drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome while on treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Active TB was treated successfully with second-line TB medications, including moxifloxacin, ethambutol, linezolid, and amikacin for 18 months. Oxford University Press 2018-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5888662/ /pubmed/29644252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy062 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Strategies for Successful Treatment of Active Tuberculosis in the Setting of DRESS on RIPE
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5888662/
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