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Improved treatment outcome of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis with the use of a rapid molecular test to detect drug resistance in China.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Jul 2020
Shi Wenpei, Davies Forsman Lina, Hu Yi, Zheng Xubin, Gao Yazhou, Li Xuliang, Jiang Weili, Bruchfeld Judith, Diwan Vinod K, Hoffner Sven, Xu Biao
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Numerous studies investigate the advantages of rapid molecular drug susceptibility testing (DST) in comparison to phenotypic DST, but the clinical impact on treating multi/extensively drug resistant TB(M/XDR-TB) is less studied. Therefore, we examined how molecular DST testing may improve MDR-TB treatment management and outcome in Chinese settings. METHODS: We performed a comparative study of patient...
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