Culture and drug susceptibility testing among previously treated tuberculosis patients in the Dominican Republic, 2014
ABSTRACT Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major public health concern that threatens global progress toward effective TB control. The risk of MDR-TB is increased in patients who have received previous TB treatment. This article describes the performance of culture and drug susceptibili...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:c4030137afac4f00a3627f61b2184de5 2023-05-15T15:05:33+02:00 Culture and drug susceptibility testing among previously treated tuberculosis patients in the Dominican Republic, 2014 Katia J. Romero Mercado Belkys Marcelino María Rodríguez Kristien Verdonck Mohammed Khogali Karen Bissell https://doaj.org/article/c4030137afac4f00a3627f61b2184de5 EN ES PT eng spa por Pan American Health Organization http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892016000100060&lng=en&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/1680-5348 1680-5348 https://doaj.org/article/c4030137afac4f00a3627f61b2184de5 Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, Vol 39, Iss 1, Pp 60-64 Tuberculosis tuberculosis resistente a múltiples medicamentos técnicas de cultivo pruebas de sensibilidad microbiana estudios de cohortes investigación operativa República Dominicana Medicine R Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 article ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T15:22:12Z ABSTRACT Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major public health concern that threatens global progress toward effective TB control. The risk of MDR-TB is increased in patients who have received previous TB treatment. This article describes the performance of culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) in patients registered as previously treated TB patients in the Dominican Republic in 2014, based on operational research that followed a retrospective cohort design and used routine program data. Under the current system of TB culturing and DST, the majority of patients with previously treated TB do not undergo DST, and those who do often experience considerable delay in obtaining their results. The lack of DST and delay in receiving DST results leads to underestimation of the number of MDR-TB cases and hinders the timely initiation of MDR-TB treatment. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic |
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ABSTRACT Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major public health concern that threatens global progress toward effective TB control. The risk of MDR-TB is increased in patients who have received previous TB treatment. This article describes the performance of culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) in patients registered as previously treated TB patients in the Dominican Republic in 2014, based on operational research that followed a retrospective cohort design and used routine program data. Under the current system of TB culturing and DST, the majority of patients with previously treated TB do not undergo DST, and those who do often experience considerable delay in obtaining their results. The lack of DST and delay in receiving DST results leads to underestimation of the number of MDR-TB cases and hinders the timely initiation of MDR-TB treatment. |
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Katia J. Romero Mercado Belkys Marcelino María Rodríguez Kristien Verdonck Mohammed Khogali Karen Bissell |
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Katia J. Romero Mercado Belkys Marcelino María Rodríguez Kristien Verdonck Mohammed Khogali Karen Bissell |
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Culture and drug susceptibility testing among previously treated tuberculosis patients in the Dominican Republic, 2014 |
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Culture and drug susceptibility testing among previously treated tuberculosis patients in the Dominican Republic, 2014 |
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Culture and drug susceptibility testing among previously treated tuberculosis patients in the Dominican Republic, 2014 |
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