Clinical Management of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in 16 European Countries.
Gunar GüntherFrank van LethSofia AlexandruNeus AltetKorkut AvsarDidi BangRaisa BarbutaGraham BothamleyAna CiobanuValeriu CruduManfred DanilovitsMartin DedicoatRaquel DuarteGina GualanoHeinke KunstWiel de LangeVaira LeimaneAnne-Marie McLaughlinCecile Magis-EscurraInge MuylleVeronika PolcováCristina PopaRudolf RumetshoferAlena SkrahinaVarvara SolodovnikovaVictor SpinuSimon TiberiPiret ViikleppChristoph Langenull nullPublished in: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (2019)
Conventional standard MDR-TB treatment regimens resulted in a higher frequency of failure compared with individualized treatments. Overall, cure from MDR-TB is substantially more frequent than previously anticipated, and poorly reflected by World Health Organization outcome definitions.