Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Dispatch
Long-term Follow-up for Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis
Sonya S. Shin*
, Jennifer J. Furin*, Felix Alcántara†, Jaime Bayona†, Epifanio Sánchez‡, and Carole D. Mitnick*§
, Jennifer J. Furin*, Felix Alcántara†, Jaime Bayona†, Epifanio Sánchez‡, and Carole D. Mitnick*§Table
Status of 96 multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients after a median of 67 months of follow-up
| Current status | Status at time of stopping treatment |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured | Abandoned, culture positive | Abandoned, culture negative | Failed | Total | |
| Alive, culture negative | 83 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 85 |
| Alive, culture positive | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Died, culture positive | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Died, culture negative | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Unknown | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 86 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 96 |
