Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine, 2017-2022

Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Apr;30(4):831-833. doi: 10.3201/eid3004.231732.ABSTRACTIn 2021, the World Health Organization recommended new extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and pre-XDR tuberculosis (TB) definitions. In a recent cohort of TB patients in Eastern Europe, we show that XDR TB as currently defined is associated with exceptionally poor treatment outcomes, considerably worse than for the former definition (31% vs. 54% treatment success).PMID:38526186 | DOI:10.3201/eid3004.231732

Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - March 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Victor Naestholt Dahl Tetiana Butova Alex Rosenthal Alina Grinev Andrei Gabrielian Sergo Vashakidze Natalia Shubladze Bekzat Toxanbayeva Lyailya Chingissova Valeriu Crudu Dumitru Chesov Gulmira Kalmambetova Gulbarchyn Saparova Christian Morberg Wejse Dmyt Source Type: research