Linkage of presumptive multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients to diagnostic and treatment services in Cambodia

National Tuberculosis Programme, Cambodia. In a cohort of TB patients, to ascertain the proportion of patients who fulfil the criteria for presumptive MDR-TB, assess whether they underwent investigation for MDR-TB, and the results of the culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST). A cross section...

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Published in:PloS one 2013-04, Vol.8 (4), p.e59903-e59903
Main Authors: Khann, Sokhan, Mao, Eang Tan, Rajendra, Yadav Prasad, Satyanarayana, Srinath, Nagaraja, Sharath Burugina, Kumar, Ajay M V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cambodia
Care and treatment
Comparative analysis
Converters
Criteria
Cross-Sectional Studies
Culture
Culture Techniques
Data collection
Diagnosis
Diagnostic Services
Diagnostic systems
Drug resistance
Drug Resistance, Multiple
Female
Health facilities
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Laboratories
Lung diseases
Male
Medical diagnosis
Medical research
Medicine
Middle Aged
Multidrug resistance
Multidrug resistant organisms
Mycobacterium
Patients
Physiology
Smear
Sputum - microbiology
Studies
Test procedures
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - drug therapy
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - therapy
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Summary:National Tuberculosis Programme, Cambodia. In a cohort of TB patients, to ascertain the proportion of patients who fulfil the criteria for presumptive MDR-TB, assess whether they underwent investigation for MDR-TB, and the results of the culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST). A cross sectional record review of TB patients registered for treatment between July-December 2011. Of 19,236 TB patients registered, 409 (2%) fulfilled the criteria of presumptive MDR-TB; of these, 187 (46%) were examined for culture. This proportion was higher among relapse, failure, return after default (RAD) and non-converters at 3 months of new smear positive TB patients (>60%) as compared to non-converters at 2 months of new TB cases (
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0059903