Mortality among MDR-TB cases: comparison with drug-susceptible tuberculosis and associated factors.

In the present study, MDR-TB, defined as resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin was responsible for 14% of the overall number of TB cases and 69% of the drug-resistant

of this study was to estimate the prevalence of latent and active TB infection and to describe the risk factors associated with latent TB among inmates in a jail in

This study aimed to screen for active TB, to estimate the prevalence and annual risk of infection (ARI) of MTB, and to identify factors associated with latent tuberculosis infection

The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the prevalence of MDR-TB and the risk factors associated with the transmission of and development

We aimed to study clinical characteristics, factors associated with MDR-TB and predicted activity of empiric anti-TB treatment at time of TB diagnosis among TB/HIV coinfected

The aim of this prospective cohort study was to estimate the fitness of drug-resistant tuber- culosis cases relative to drug-susceptible tuberculosis cases by determining the

Explanatory variables to identify the factors associated with lost to follow up among MDR-TB patients included age, sex, socioeconomic status (based on whether they had the

Methods: We performed a retrospective case-control study of patients with MDR (cases), XDR (cases) and drug-susceptible (controls) TB in a high-HIV-prevalence setting in South Africa