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TB Anywhere, TB Everywhere. The First Case of pre-Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Treated with BPaL in Italy: Challenges and Opportunities for Transborder Collaboration.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2025
Fumagalli Giovanni, Riccardi Niccolò, Catalano Gaia, Ferrarese Maurizio, Repossi Alice Claudia, Codecasa Luigi R
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Even if in the past years new effective, safe, and orally administrable drugs are available to create shorter regimens, drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB) treatment remains a critical issue and a major challenge faced by clinicians worldwide. We present the first case of transborder pulmonary pre-extensively drug-resistant (pre-XDR)-TB treated in Italy with the bedaquiline-pretomanid-linezolid regimen....
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