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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2015 May;45(5):1498-501.
doi: 10.1183/09031936.00176314. Epub 2015 Feb 19.

Long-term mortality assessment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients treated with delamanid

Charles D Wells  1 , Rajesh Gupta  2 , Norbert Hittel  3 , Lawrence J Geiter  2
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Long-term mortality assessment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients treated with delamanid

Charles D Wells et al. Eur Respir J. 2015 May.

Abstract

MDR-TB patients treated with 6 months or more of delamanid had significantly lower likelihood of mortality http://ow.ly/HOv1d

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Conflict of interest: Disclosures can be found alongside the online version of this article at erj.ersjournals.com

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