Time to Sputum Culture Conversion and Its Predictors Among Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis Patients in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: Retrospective Cohort Study.
Letebrhan WeldemhretAtaklti Hailu AtsbahaHadish BekuretsionAbraham Aregay DestaLemlem LegesseAtsebaha Gebrekidan KahsayDawit HagosPublished in: Infection and drug resistance (2023)
The median time of culture conversion was 64 days. Moreover, the majority of the study participants achieved culture conversion within the first six months of treatment commencement, which supports predefined standard treatment durations.