Time to sputum culture conversion and treatment outcome of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study from urban China

Eur Respir J. 2017 Mar 22;49(3):1601558. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01558-2016. Print 2017 Mar.

Peng Lu^{1

2}, Qiao Liu^{3

2}, Leonardo Martinez^{4

2}, Haitao Yang^{1

5}, Wei Lu³, Xiaoyan Ding³, Limei Zhu⁶

¹ Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, PR China.
² These authors contributed equally to this work.
³ Dept of Chronic Communicable Disease, Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, PR China.
⁴ Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia School of Public Health, Athens, GA, USA.
⁵ Institute of Parasitic Disease of Jiangsu Province, Wuxi, PR China.
⁶ Dept of Chronic Communicable Disease, Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, PR China jsjkmck@163.com.

Abstract

The timing of testing for culture conversion has potential as a marker of MDR-TB treatment success http://ow.ly/borO308pPXg