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Low enrollment and high treatment success in children with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia: A ten years national retrospective cohort study.

Habteyes Hailu TolaKourosh Holakouie-NaieniMohammad Ali MansourniaMehdi YaseriEphrem TesfayeZemedu MahamedMillion Molla Sisay
Published in: PloS one (2020)
In this study, the proportion of children enrolled into DR-TB treatment was lower than the proportion of adults enrolled to the treatment (4.5% in children versus 95.5% in adults) in last ten years. Our findings also suggest that children with DR-TB can be successfully treated with standardized long term regimen. Further prospective cohort study is required to investigate factors contributing to death or treatment failure.
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