MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention
Re: [Drug Resistant TB] Comprehensive Treatment of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
This article provides hope that XDR TB cases can be treated successfully.
60.4% success is a great result.
However, in Tomsk we treated successfully only 48.3% XDR TB cases as
compared to 63.2% of non-XDR TB cases. Maybe we should compare Peruvian and
Tomsk XDR TB cohorts regarding any differences in resistance patterns and
other important determinants of failure/success. If both cohorts are
comparable, then we can make some recommendations for Tomsk (or maybe for
other sites as well). I can see that Tomsk didn't use moxifloxacin as often
as it was done in Peru due to its limited availability; the rate of surgery
is sligthly lower too.
Irina Gelmanova
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