Tuberculosis Drug Susceptibility, Treatment, and Outcomes for Belarusian HIV-Positive Patients with Tuberculosis: Results from a National and International Laboratory

Background. To cure drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB), the antituberculous treatment should be guided by Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug-susceptibility testing (DST). In this study, we compared conventional DST performed in Minsk, Belarus, a TB DR high-burden country, with extensive geno- and ph...

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Main Authors: Daria N. Podlekareva, Dorte Bek Folkvardsen, Alena Skrahina, Anna Vassilenko, Aliaksandr Skrahin, Henadz Hurevich, Dzmitry Klimuk, Igor Karpov, Jens D. Lundgren, Ole Kirk, Troels Lillebaek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2021-01-01
Series:Tuberculosis Research and Treatment
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6646239