Pediatric delamanid treatment for children with rifampicin-resistant TB

Affiliations

¹ Médecins Sans Frontières, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Department of Health, Province of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Department of Health, City of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ The Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Division of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

N Tyeku et al. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2022.

. 2022 Oct 1;26(10):986-988.

doi: 10.5588/ijtld.22.0264.

¹ Médecins Sans Frontières, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa.
² Department of Health, Province of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Department of Health, City of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ The Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Division of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest: none declared.

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