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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 3

Resistance patterns of drugs effective in vitro for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Total, N = 1,254 Candidate effective drugs
Short regimen, FQ-S and SLI-S, n = 952 BDQ-containing regimen
Combined FQ-R or SLI-R,† n = 302 FQ-R only, 
n = 73 SLI-R only, 
n = 155 XDR, 
n = 74
Median 5 5 3 4 3 2
Interquartile range 4–6 5–6 2–4 4–5 3–4 1–2
Range 0–7 3–7 0–6 2–6 1–5 0–4

*Drug susceptibility test results were analyzed for 7 drugs: high-dose isoniazid, ethambutol, FQ, aminoglycoside, capreomycin, ethionamide, and para-aminosalicylic acid; BDQ, bedaquiline; FQ, fluoroquinolone; R, resistant; S, susceptible; SLI, second-line injectable drug; XDR, extensively drug-resistant.
†Includes FQ-R only, SLI-R only, and XDR cases combined.

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