Factors predictive of the success of tuberculosis treatment: A systematic review with meta-analysis.
Ninfa Marlen Chaves-TorresJecxy Julieth Quijano RodríguezPablo Sebastián Porras AndradeMaría Belen ArriagaEduardo Martins NettoPublished in: PloS one (2019)
The success of TB treatment at the global level was good, but was still below the defined threshold of 85%. Factors such as age, sex, alcohol consumption, smoking, lack of sputum conversion at two months of treatment and HIV affected the success of TB treatment.