Outcomes of Bedaquiline Treatment in Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Lawrence Mbuagbaw
, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, Catherine Hewison, Nyasha Bakare, Mathieu Bastard, Eric Caumes, Mathilde Fréchet-Jachym, Jérôme Robert, Nicolas Veziris, Naira Khachatryan, Tinatin Kotrikadze, Armen Hayrapetyan, Zaza Avaliani, Holger J. Schünemann, and Christian Lienhardt
Author affiliations: St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (L. Mbuagbaw); Centre for the Development of Best Practices in Health, Yaoundé, Cameroon (L. Mbuagbaw); McMaster University, Hamilton (L. Mbuagbaw, H.J. Schünemann); Centre d'Immunologie et des Maladies Infectieuses, INSERM, Paris (L. Guglielmetti, E. Caumes, J. Robert, N. Veziris); Centre Hospitalier de Bligny, Bris-sous-Forges, France (L. Guglielmetti, M. Fréchet-Jachym); Sorbonne Université, Paris, France (L. Guglielmetti, J. Robert, N. Veziris); Médecins Sans Frontières, Paris (C. Hewison); Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Titusville, New Jersey, USA (N. Bakare); Epicentre, Paris (M. Bastard); Hôpitaux Universitaires de l'Est Parisien, Paris (N. Veziris); Médecins Sans Frontières, Yerevan, Armenia (N. Khachatryan); Médecins Sans Frontières, Tbilisi, Georgia (T. Kotrikadze); National Tuberculosis Control Centre, Yerevan (A. Hayrapetyan); National Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Tbilisi (Z. Avaliani); World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (C. Lienhardt); Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France (C. Lienhardt)
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Figure. Summary of treatment outcomes and adverse events in study of bedaquiline treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Values are shown as percent with 95% CI, shown in the graph as horizontal bars. QTcF indicates QT intervals corrected for heart rate using the Fridericia formula. * A total of 406 study participants with culture data at the 6-month point; †, a total of 509 participants with baseline QTcF data.
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