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Predictors of two months culture conversion in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: findings from a retrospective cohort study

Basit A 1 , Ahmad N 2 , Khan AH 2 , Javaid A 3 , Syed Sulaiman SA 2 , Afridi AK 4 Show all authors , Adnan AS 5 , Haq Iu 6 , Shah SS 7 , Ahadi A 8 , Ahmad I 9

Affiliations 

  • 1 Post Graduate Medical Institute, Peshawar, Pakistan
  • 2 Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Pulmonology, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan
  • 4 Programmatic Management Unit of Drug Resistant TB, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan
  • 5 Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Resource Center, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia
  • 6 Department of Pediatrics, Saidu Medical College, Saidu Sharif Swat, Pakistan
  • 7 Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan
  • 8 Department of Pharmacy, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan
  • 9 Department of Microbiology, Quaid-e- Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
PLoS One, 2014;9(4):e93206.
PMID: 24705411 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093206

Abstract

Various studies have reported culture conversion at two months as a predictor of successful treatment outcome in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

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