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Baseline radiographic and microbiologic predictors of treatment outcomes in a shortened all-oral regimen for MDR/RR-TB

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By Stephane Mpinda, Allison LaHood, Letizia Trevisi, Matthew L Romo, Michael Rich, Carole D. Mitnick, Molly Franke, Kunda Kwabisha Mikanda, Edmund Q. L. Shen, Llang Maama, Meseret Tamirat, Phate Sebakeng, Lawrence Oyewusi, Elna Osso, Kwonjune Justin Seung
| Nature Verified
Abstract WHO-endorsed shortened, all-oral regimens have improved tolerability and outcomes for MDR/RR-TB treatment, but predictors of poor outcomes remain incompletely-characterized. We conducted a prospective cohort study (NCT05871489) of adults with bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary MDR/RR-TB treated with a shortened, all-oral regimen in Lesotho.
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Tuberculosis doesn't respect borders

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By K.J. Seung, Kunda Kwabisha Mikanda
| WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) Verified
A patient we'll call Juliet is a young woman you wouldn't have noticed if you had happened upon her in the market or on a bus in the African country where she lived. She looks healthy. But she isn’t. As specialists in drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), we saw her at our clinic because her treatment wasn’t working. We were shocked to see how many drugs were resistant in the bacilli Juliet was coughing up.
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