Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine, 2017-2022.
Emerg Infect Dis
; 30(4): 831-833, 2024 Apr.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38526186
ABSTRACT
In 2021, the World Health Organization recommended new extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and pre-XDR tuberculosis (TB) definitions. In a recent cohort of TB patients in Eastern Europe, we show that XDR TB as currently defined is associated with exceptionally poor treatment outcomes, considerably worse than for the former definition (31% vs. 54% treatment success).
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
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Humans
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Asia
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Europa
Language:
En
Journal:
Emerg Infect Dis
Journal subject:
DOENCAS TRANSMISSIVEIS
Year:
2024
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Article
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