Outcome of drug resistant tuberculosis in Indian children
Naman S. Shetty, Minnie Bodhanwala, Ira Shah
Tropical Doctor · 2021-11
Abstract
We aimed to determine the outcome of bacteriologically confirmed drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB) in 174 children. We found that DR-TB infected children have nonetheless a high treatment completion rate with a low incidence of fatality and treatment failure. Reversible adverse drug reactions are common during therapy.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Case fatality rate
- Drug resistant tuberculosis
- Incidence (geometry)
- Drug
- Drug resistance
- Adverse effect
- Pediatrics
- Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
- Directly Observed Therapy
- Internal medicine
- Surgery