Early culture conversion and cure for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis is possible with appropriate treatment: lessons learnt from a case study in South Africa
Despite the relevance of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) to global TB control efforts, case reports on patients achieving cure are scarce. The case of a patient who was treated for more than 3 years as a multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) case, and who was diagnosed retrospectively wit...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015-11-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971215002301 |