Vaistams jautrios tuberkuliozės gydymo šalutiniai poveikiai

Tuberculosis is a major yet preventable airborne infectious disease. From the infectious diseases caused by a single pathogen, tuberculosis has caused the most deaths in the world per year until the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, an estimated 10 million new TB cases emerged, and more than 1.4 million people died of TB. About one fourth of the world’s population is infected with TB bacilli. Of the estimated 10 million people who fell ill with TB in 2019, TB was not diagnosed in an estimated 2.9 million, and they were not enrolled in quality-assured TB treatment. Though new shorter treatment regimens are being composed, so far patients with drug-susceptible tuberculosis are still being treated with a six month regiment with four drugs. According to the literature, some side effects of drug-susceptible tuberculosis treatment have to be expected but up to date we have no data how common are these side effects in Lithuanian population.