Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes among Children and Adolescents in Karachi, Pakistan.
Amyn A MalikUzma KhanPalwasha KhanAliya AnwarNaseem SalahuddinSaira KhowajaAamir J KhanSalman KhanHamidah HussainFarhana AmanullahPublished in: Tropical medicine and infectious disease (2022)
We found high rates of favourable outcomes in children and adolescents treated for DR-TB. However, there were few young children in our cohort and there was a considerable gender gap that enhanced efforts to diagnose DR-TB in young children and to elucidate and mitigate the reasons for poor outcomes amongst males.
Keyphrases
- drug resistant
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- multidrug resistant
- acinetobacter baumannii
- tertiary care
- editorial comment
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- type diabetes
- emergency department
- hiv aids
- skeletal muscle
- adipose tissue
- quality improvement
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- weight loss
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv infected
- electronic health record