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Long-term Follow-up Reveals High Posttreatment Mortality Rate Among Patients With Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the Country of Georgia

BACKGROUND: Given very limited data, we assessed the long-term outcomes among patients with extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB). METHODS: A retrospective population-based cohort study was performed in patients with XDR-TB diagnosed during 2011–2013 in the country of Georgia. Data were...

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Autores principales: Frank, Melanie, Adamashvili, Natalia, Lomtadze, Nino, Kokhreidze, Eka, Avaliani, Zaza, Kempker, Russell R, Blumberg, Henry M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6483133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31041349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz152