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Volume 21, Number 6—June 2015
Research

Additional Drug Resistance of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Patients in 9 Countries

Ekaterina V. KurbatovaComments to Author , Tracy Dalton, Julia Ershova, Thelma E. Tupasi, Janice Campos Caoili, Martie L. van der Walt, Charlotte L. Kvasnovsky, Martin Yagui, Jaime Bayona, Carmen Contreras, Vaira Leimane, Laura E. Via, HeeJin Kim, Somsak Akksilp, Boris Y. Kazennyy, Grigory V. Volchenkov, Ruwen Jou, Kai Kliiman, Olga V. Demikhova, and J. Peter Cegielski
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (E.V. Kurbatova, T. Dalton, J. Ershova, J. Campos Caoili, C. Kvasnovsky, J.P. Cegielski); Tropical Disease Foundation, Manila, the Philippines (T. Tupasi, J. Campos Caoili); Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa (M. Van Der Walt, C. Kvasnovsky); National Institute of Health, Lima, Peru (M. Yagui); Socios en Salud Sucursal Perú, Lima (J. Bayona, C. Contreras); Riga East University Hospital Centre of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Riga, Latvia (V. Leimane); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (L.E. Via); University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (L.E. Via):; Korean Institute of TB, Seoul, South Korea (H. Kim); Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand (S. Akksilp); Orel Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Orel, Russia (B.Y. Kazennyy); Vladimir Oblast Tuberculosis Dispensary, Vladimir, Russia (G.V. Volchenkov); Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan (R. Jou); Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia (K. Kliiman); Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia (O.V. Demikhova)

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Table 1

Proportion of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis who would have qualified for treatment with the short (9-month) regimen or with bedaquiline-containing regimen, 2005–2008*

Candidate regimen Country, no. patients (%)
Estonia, n = 24 Latvia, n = 89 Peru, n = 194 Philippines, n = 386 Russia, n = 96 South Africa, n = 281 South Korea, n = 96 Taiwan, n = 40 Thailand, n = 48 Total, N = 1,254
Short† 13 (54.2) 42 (47.2) 154 (79.4) 357 (92.5) 59 (61.5) 195 (69.4) 58 (60.4) 31 (77.5) 43 (89.6) 952 (75.9)
BDQ‡ 11 (45.8) 47 (52.8) 40 (20.6) 29 (7.5) 37 (38.5) 86 (30.6) 38 (39.6) 9 (22.5) 5 (10.4) 302 (24.1)

*Percentages show proportion of patients in cohort form each country who would be candidates for a particular regimen. BDQ, bedaquiline.
†Candidates for short regimen were patients without baseline resistance to fluoroquinolones and second-line injectable drugs.
‡Candidates for BDQ-containing regimen were patients with baseline resistance to fluoroquinolones or second-line injectable drugs.

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