Multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis treatment regimens and patient outcomes: an individual patient data meta-analysis of 9,153 patients.

BACKGROUND:Treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is lengthy, toxic, expensive, and has generally poor outcomes. We undertook an individual patient data meta-analysis to assess the impact on outcomes of the type, number, and duration of drugs used to treat MDR-TB. METHODS AND FINDING...

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Main Authors: Shama D Ahuja, David Ashkin, Monika Avendano, Rita Banerjee, Melissa Bauer, Jamie N Bayona, Mercedes C Becerra, Andrea Benedetti, Marcos Burgos, Rosella Centis, Eward D Chan, Chen-Yuan Chiang, Helen Cox, Lia D'Ambrosio, Kathy DeRiemer, Nguyen Huy Dung, Donald Enarson, Dennis Falzon, Katherine Flanagan, Jennifer Flood, Maria L Garcia-Garcia, Neel Gandhi, Reuben M Granich, Maria G Hollm-Delgado, Timothy H Holtz, Michael D Iseman, Leah G Jarlsberg, Salmaan Keshavjee, Hye-Ryoun Kim, Won-Jung Koh, Joey Lancaster, Christophe Lange, Wiel C M de Lange, Vaira Leimane, Chi Chiu Leung, Jiehui Li, Dick Menzies, Giovanni B Migliori, Sergey P Mishustin, Carole D Mitnick, Masa Narita, Philly O'Riordan, Madhukar Pai, Domingo Palmero, Seung-kyu Park, Geoffrey Pasvol, Jose Peña, Carlos Pérez-Guzmán, Maria I D Quelapio, Alfredo Ponce-de-Leon, Vija Riekstina, Jerome Robert, Sarah Royce, H Simon Schaaf, Kwonjune J Seung, Lena Shah, Tae Sun Shim, Sonya S Shin, Yuji Shiraishi, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Giovanni Sotgiu, Matthew J Strand, Payam Tabarsi, Thelma E Tupasi, Robert van Altena, Martie Van der Walt, Tjip S Van der Werf, Mario H Vargas, Pirett Viiklepp, Janice Westenhouse, Wing Wai Yew, Jae-Joon Yim, Collaborative Group for Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data in MDR-TB
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3429397?pdf=render