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2025-01-29 • New England Journal of Medicine
2025-01-29 • New England Journal of Medicine
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For decades, poor treatment options and low-quality evidence plagued care for patients with rifampin-resistant tuberculosis. The advent of new drugs ...
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2024-05-09 • Nature Communications
2024-05-09 • Nature Communications
Sputum culture reversion after conversion is an indicator of tuberculosis (TB) treatment failure. We analyze data from the endTB multi-country prospective observational cohort (NCT032592...
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2024-01-29 • medRxiv
2024-01-29 • medRxiv
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2024-01-25 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2024-01-25 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Quantification of recurrence risk following successful treatment is crucial to evaluating regimens for multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant (MDR/RR) tuberculosis (TB). Howev...
Quantification of recurrence risk following successful treatment is crucial to evaluating regimens for multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant (MDR/RR) tuberculosis (TB). Howev...
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2024-01-25 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2024-01-25 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
Among 43 pregnant women receiving multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) treatment with bedaquiline and/or delamanid, 98% had favorable treatment outcomes. Of ...
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2024-01-20 • medRxiv
2024-01-20 • medRxiv
RATIONALE
Treatment outcomes may be compromised among patients with multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis with additional fluoroquinolone resis...
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2023-11-30 • Trials
2023-11-30 • Trials
BACKGROUND
Treatment for fluoroquinolone-resistant multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR TB) often lasts longer than treatment for less resistant strains, yi...
Treatment for fluoroquinolone-resistant multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR TB) often lasts longer than treatment for less resistant strains, yi...
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Effectiveness of bedaquiline use beyond six months in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
2023-06-01 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2023-06-01 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
RATIONALE
Current recommendations for the treatment of rifampin- and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis include bedaquiline used for six months or longer. Evidence is needed to inform ...
Current recommendations for the treatment of rifampin- and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis include bedaquiline used for six months or longer. Evidence is needed to inform ...
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2023-06-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2023-06-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
BACKGROUND
Evidence of the effectiveness of the WHO-recommended design of longer individualized regimens for multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB) is limited.
OB...
Evidence of the effectiveness of the WHO-recommended design of longer individualized regimens for multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant TB (MDR/RR-TB) is limited.
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2023-04-28 • PLOS Global Public Health
2023-04-28 • PLOS Global Public Health
Clarity about the role of delamanid in longer regimens for multidrug-resistant TB is needed after discordant Phase IIb and Phase III randomized controlled trial results. The Phase IIb tr...
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2023-01-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2023-01-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
BACKGROUND
The WHO provides standardized outcome definitions for rifampicin-resistant (RR) and multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB. However, operationalizing these definitions can be challe...
The WHO provides standardized outcome definitions for rifampicin-resistant (RR) and multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB. However, operationalizing these definitions can be challe...
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2022-10-15 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2022-10-15 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Concomitant use of bedaquiline (Bdq) and delamanid (Dlm) for multi-drug/rifampicin resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) has raised concerns about a potentially poor risk-ben...
Concomitant use of bedaquiline (Bdq) and delamanid (Dlm) for multi-drug/rifampicin resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) has raised concerns about a potentially poor risk-ben...
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2022-09-15 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2022-09-15 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
RATIONALE
Safety of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) can be an obstacle to treatment completion.
OBJECTIVES
Evaluate safety of longer MDR/RR-TB...
Safety of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) can be an obstacle to treatment completion.
OBJECTIVES
Evaluate safety of longer MDR/RR-TB...
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|Short Report
2019-11-02 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2019-11-02 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
Delamanid should be effective against highly resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but uptake has been slow globally. In the endTB (expand new drug markets for TB) Observation...
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2020-07-11 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
2020-07-11 • Clinical Infectious Diseases
Delamanid should be effective against highly resistant strains of Mycobacteriumtuberculosis, but uptake has been slow globally. In the endTB (expand new drug markets for TB) Observati...
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2020-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2020-10-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
In 2015, the initiative Expand New Drug Markets for TB (endTB) began, with the objective of reducing barriers to access to the new and repurposed TB drugs. Here we describe the major imp...
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2021-01-01 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2021-01-01 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
RATIONALE
Bedaquiline and delamanid offer the possibility of more effective and less toxic treatment for multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB). With this treatment, however, so...
Bedaquiline and delamanid offer the possibility of more effective and less toxic treatment for multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB). With this treatment, however, so...
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2018-09-08 • Lancet
2018-09-08 • Lancet
BACKGROUND
Treatment outcomes for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis remain poor. We aimed to estimate the association of treatment success and death with the use of individual drugs, ...
Treatment outcomes for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis remain poor. We aimed to estimate the association of treatment success and death with the use of individual drugs, ...
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2021-09-25 • Trials
2021-09-25 • Trials
BACKGROUND
Treatment of multidrug- and rifampin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) is expensive, labour-intensive, and associated with substantial adverse events and poor outcomes. W...
Treatment of multidrug- and rifampin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) is expensive, labour-intensive, and associated with substantial adverse events and poor outcomes. W...
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2019-08-20 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2019-08-20 • BMC Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
At a time when programs were struggling to design effective regimens for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), the marketing authorization of bedaqui...
At a time when programs were struggling to design effective regimens for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), the marketing authorization of bedaqui...