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Treatment correlates of successful outcomes in pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: an individual patient data meta-analysis

Nafees Ahmad, +107 more
- 08 Sep 2018 - 
- Vol. 392, Iss: 10150, pp 821-834
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Treatment outcomes were significantly better with use of linezolid, later generation fluoroquinolones, bedaquiline, clofazimine, and carbapenems for treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and the need for trials to ascertain the optimal combination and duration of these drugs is emphasised.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2018-09-08 and is currently open access. It has received 404 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bedaquiline & Absolute risk reduction.

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Treatment of Highly Drug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis

TL;DR: The combination of bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid led to a favorable outcome at 6 months after the end of therapy in a high percentage of patients with highly drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis; some associated toxic effects were observed.
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What is new in the WHO consolidated guidelines on drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment?

TL;DR: National TB control programmes must have adequate laboratory infrastructure, trained healthcare workers and quality-assured laboratory DST reporting for both first-and second-line drugs to facilitate DSTguided treatment of DR-TB.
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Management of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

TL;DR: Individualised multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment with novel and repurposed drugs and guided by genotypic and phenotypic drug susceptibility testing can improve treatment outcomes.
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World Health Organization recommendations on the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis, 2020 update.

TL;DR: The 2020 revision of World Health Organization guidelines on the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) has highlighted the ongoing need for high-quality evidence and has reiterated the need for clinical trials and other research studies to contribute to the development of evidence-based policy.
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An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies

TL;DR: The propensity score is a balancing score: conditional on the propensity score, the distribution of observed baseline covariates will be similar between treated and untreated subjects, and different causal average treatment effects and their relationship with propensity score analyses are described.
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Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Culture Conversion with Bedaquiline

TL;DR: The addition of bedaquiline to a preferred background regimen for 24 weeks resulted in faster culture conversion and significantly more culture conversions at 120 weeks, as compared with placebo.
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Multidrug Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis Treatment Regimens and Patient Outcomes: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of 9,153 Patients

Shama D. Ahuja, +72 more
- 28 Aug 2012 - 
TL;DR: Findings from a collaborative, individual patient-level meta-analysis of treatment outcomes among patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are reported.
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