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Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Research

Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Management in Resource-limited Settings

Eva Nathanson*Comments to Author , Catharina Lambregts-van Weezenbeek†, Michael Rich‡, Rajesh Gupta*, Jaime Bayona‡§, Kai Blöndal†, José A. Caminero¶, J. Peter Cegielski#, Manfred Danilovits**, Marcos A. Espinal*, Vahur Hollo††, Ernesto Jaramillo*, Vaira Leimane‡‡, Carole D. Mitnick§§, Joia S. Mukherjee§§, Paul Nunn*, Alexander Pasechnikov‡¶¶, Thelma E. Tupasi##, Charles Wells#, and Mario C. Raviglione*
Author affiliations: *World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; †KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, the Netherlands; ‡Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; §Socios En Salud, Lima, Peru; ¶International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France; #Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; **Tartu University Clinics, Tartu, Estonia; ††National TB Programme, Tallinn, Estonia; ‡‡State Centre of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases of Latvia, Riga, Latvia; §§Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ¶¶MDR-TB Project in Tomsk Oblast, Tomsk, Russian Federation; ##Makati Medical Center, Makati, the Philippines

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Table 6

Clinical and bacteriologic progress after cure or treatment completion and number of relapses identified by the beginning of 2006

Characteristic Estonia Latvia Lima Manila Tomsk Total
Duration of follow-up after cure or treatment completion (mo) 36 24 12 24 12
Frequency of follow-up after cure or treatment completion Every 6 mo Every 6 mo Every 3 mo Every 6 mo Every 6 mo
No. cured or completed treatment 30 168 351 62 118 729
No. followed up* 30 168 351 62 59 670
No. cured or completed treatment who relapsed by 2006 3 5 4 1 1 14
Relapse rate (95% confidence interval) 10.0%
(2.11–26.53) 3.0% (0.97–6.81) 1.1% (0.31–2.89) 1.6% (0.04–8.66) 1.7% (0.04–9.09) 2.1%
(1.14–3.51)

*In Tomsk, 59 patients left the region after having been declared cured. These patients were lost to follow-up.

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