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Volume 25, Number 3—March 2019
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Treatment Outcomes in Global Systematic Review and Patient Meta-Analysis of Children with Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Muhammad OsmanComments to Author , Elizabeth P. Harausz, Anthony J. Garcia-Prats, H. Simon Schaaf, Brittany K. Moore, Robert M. Hicks1, Jay Achar, Farhana Amanullah, Pennan Barry, Mercedes Becerra, Domnica I. Chiotan, Peter C. Drobac2, Jennifer Flood, Jennifer Furin, Medea Gegia, Petros Isaakidis, Andrei Mariandyshev, Iveta Ozere, N. Sarita Shah3, Alena Skrahina, Elena Yablokova, James A. Seddon4, Anneke C. Hesseling4, and for The Collaborative Group for Meta-Analysis of Paediatric Individual Patient Data in MDR TB
Author affiliations: Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa (M. Osman, A.J. Garcia-Prats, H.S. Schaaf, J.A. Seddon, A.C. Hesseling); State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA (E.P. Harausz); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (B.K. Moore); University of California, San Francisco, California, USA (R.M. Hicks); Médecins Sans Frontières, London, UK (J. Achar); Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan (F. Amanullah); California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, USA (P. Barry, J. Flood); Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (M. Becerra, P.C. Drobac, J. Furin); Romanian National TB Program, Bucharest, Romania (D.I. Chiotan); World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (M. Gegia); Médecins Sans Frontières, Mumbai, India (P. Isaakidis); Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russia (A. Mariandyshev, E. Yablokova); Riga Eastern Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia (I. Ozere); Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA (N.S. Shah); Republican Research and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and TB, Minsk, Belarus (A. Skrahina); Imperial College London, London (J.A. Seddon)

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Figure 1

Flow chart for 37 children with confirmed XDR TB and details of TB treatment history, type of TB treatment, and treatment outcome. DR, drug-resistant; DS, drug-susceptible, MDR, multidrug-resistant; TB, tuberculosis; XDR TB, extensively drug-resistant TB.

Figure 1. Flow chart for 37 children with confirmed XDR TB and details of TB treatment history, type of TB treatment, and treatment outcome. DR, drug-resistant; DS, drug-susceptible, MDR, multidrug-resistant; TB, tuberculosis; XDR TB, extensively drug-resistant TB.

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1Current affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.

2Current affiliation: Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

3Current affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

4These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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