Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine, 2017-2022.

Authors :: Dahl VN
Butova T
Rosenthal A
Grinev A
Gabrielian A
Vashakidze S
Shubladze N
Toxanbayeva B
Chingissova L
Crudu V
Chesov D
Kalmambetova G
Saparova G
Wejse CM
Butov D
Source :: Emerging infectious diseases [Emerg Infect Dis] 2024 Apr; Vol. 30 (4), pp. 831-833.
Publication Year :: 2024
Abstract: In 2021, the World Health Organization recommended new extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and pre-XDR tuberculosis (TB) definitions. In a recent cohort of TB patients in Eastern Europe, we show that XDR TB as currently defined is associated with exceptionally poor treatment outcomes, considerably worse than for the former definition (31% vs. 54% treatment success).

Subjects :: Humans
Ukraine epidemiology
Moldova epidemiology
Kazakhstan epidemiology
Kyrgyzstan epidemiology
Georgia (Republic) epidemiology
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant drug therapy
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant epidemiology

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