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Pietro Viggiani

Publications -  16
Citations -  801

Pietro Viggiani is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bedaquiline & Tuberculosis. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 16 publications receiving 630 citations.

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Effectiveness and safety of bedaquiline-containing regimens in the treatment of MDR- and XDR-TB: a multicentre study

Sergey Borisov, +64 more
TL;DR: Bedaquiline-containing regimens achieved high conversion and success rates under different nonexperimental conditions, and is safe and effective in treating MDR- and XDR-TB patients.
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Surveillance of adverse events in the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: first global report

Sergey Borisov, +90 more
TL;DR: This global project (658 patients from 26 countries) demonstrates aDSM is feasible and serious adverse events of recommended drugs are reasonably low (overall 57 out of 504, 11.3%), but implementation needs scaling up to support patient-centred care.
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Comparison of effectiveness and safety of imipenem/clavulanate- versus meropenem/clavulanate-containing regimens in the treatment of MDR- and XDR-TB

TL;DR: It is suggested that meropenem/clavulanate is more effective than imipenem/ clavULanate in treating MDR/XDR-TB patients and safe and more effective in treating non-drug-resistant tuberculosis patients.
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Ertapenem in the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: first clinical experience.

TL;DR: Etrtapenem may be useful for MDR/XDR-TB to simplify administration of carbapenem when the patient is at home and the necessary drugs expensive.