Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Case Reports
. 2015 Nov;21(11):2105-6.
doi: 10.3201/eid2111.151119.

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Child Successfully Treated with 9-Month Drug Regimen

Jay Achar, Catherine Berry, Krzysztof Herboczek, Nargiza Parpieva, Mirzagaleb N Tillyashaykhov, Zinaida N Tigay, Atadjan Khamraev, Kalyan Velivela, James A Seddon, Philipp du Cros
Case Reports

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Child Successfully Treated with 9-Month Drug Regimen

Jay Achar et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: MDR-TB; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; TB; Uzbekistan; antimicrobial resistance; bacteria; children; multidrug-resistant; paucibacillary TB; pediatric; treatment; tuberculosis.

PubMed Disclaimer

References

    1. World Health Organization. Global tuberculosis report 2014. [cited 2015 May 20]. http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/en/
    1. Jenkins HE, Tolman AW, Yuen CM, Parr JB, Keshavjee S, Perez-Velez CM, et al. Incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis disease in children: systematic review and global estimates. Lancet. 2014;383:1572–9. 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60195-1 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
    1. World Health Organization. Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis. 2011. update [cited 2015 May 20]. http://www.who.int/tb/challenges/mdr/programmatic_guidelines_for_mdrtb/en/ - PubMed
    1. Van Deun A, Maug AKJ, Salim MAH, Das PK, Sarker MR, Daru P, et al. Short, highly effective, and inexpensive standardized treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2010;182:684–92. 10.1164/rccm.201001-0077OC - DOI - PubMed
    1. Aung KJM, Van Deun A, Declercq E, Sarker MR, Das PK, Hossain MA, et al. Successful “9-month Bangladesh regimen” for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among over 500 consecutive patients. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2014;18:1180–7. 10.5588/ijtld.14.0100 - DOI - PubMed

MeSH terms

Substances