Drug susceptibility testing and mortality in patients treated for tuberculosis in high-burden countries: a multicentre cohort study

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Kathrin Zürcher Marie Ballif Lukas Fenner Sonia Borrell Peter M Keller Joachim Gnokoro Olivier Marcy Marcel Yotebieng Lameck Diero E Jane Carter Neesha Rockwood Robert Wilkinson Helen Cox Nicholas Ezati Alash'le G Abimiku Jimena Collantes Anchalee Avihingsanon Kamon Kawkitinarong Miriam Reinhard Rico Hömke Robin Huebner Sebastien Gagneux Erik C Böttger Matthias Egger International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Consortium
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Abstract

Drug resistance is a challenge for the global control of tuberculosis. We examined mortality in patients with tuberculosis from high-burden countries, according to concordance or discordance of results from drug susceptibility testing done locally and in a reference laboratory.

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Journal Lancet Infectious Diseases
Volume 19
Issue number 3
Pages 298-307
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Publisher website (DOI) 10.1016/s1473-3099(18)30673-x
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