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ReviewEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society2019

Regimens to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: past, present and future perspectives.

Emanuele Pontali, Mario C Raviglione, Giovanni Battista Migliori, and the writing group members of the Global TB Network Clinical Trials Committee

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Review in European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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68 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Emanuele PontaliDept of Infectious Diseases, Galliera Hospital, Genova, Italy.
Mario C RaviglioneGlobal Health Programme, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Giovanni Battista MiglioriServizio di Epidemiologia Clinica delle Malattie Respiratorie, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Tradate, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2597-574X
and the writing group members of the Global TB Network Clinical Trials Committee

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past few decades, treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR)/extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) has been challenging because of its prolonged duration (up to 20-24 months), toxicity, costs and sub-optimal outcomes.After over 40 years of neglect, two new drugs (bedaquiline and delamanid) have been made available to manage difficult-to-treat MDR-/XDR-TB cases. World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines published in March 2019 endorsed the possibility of treating MDR-TB patients with a full oral regimen, following previous guidelines published in 2016 which launched a shorter regimen lasting 9-10 months.The objectives of this article are to review the main achievements in MDR-TB treatment through the description of the existing WHO strategies, to discuss the main ongoing trials and to shed light on potential future scenarios and revised definitions necessary to manage drug-resistant TB.

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialAntitubercular AgentsDiffusion of InnovationDrug Administration ScheduleDrug Therapy, CombinationExtensively Drug-Resistant TuberculosisForecastingHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansTreatment OutcomeTuberculosis, Multidrug-ResistantAntitubercular Agents

Identifiers

PMID31142549
PMCPMC9489134

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