Ambulatory multi-drug resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes in a cohort of HIV-infected patients in a slum setting in Mumbai, India.

BACKGROUND: India carries one quarter of the global burden of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and has an estimated 2.5 million people living with HIV. Despite this reality, provision of treatment for MDR-TB is extremely limited, particularly for HIV-infected individuals. Médecins Sans Frontières (M...

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Main Authors: Petros Isaakidis, Helen S Cox, Bhanumati Varghese, Chiara Montaldo, Esdras Da Silva, Homa Mansoor, Joanna Ladomirska, Giovanni Sotgiu, Giovanni B Migliori, Emanuele Pontali, Peter Saranchuk, Camilla Rodrigues, Tony Reid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3228724?pdf=render