Time to appropriate treatment in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Korea: Are we still in 2010?

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study investigated the time to appropriate treatment and factors affecting late treatment initiation in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in South Korea.

Methods

Data from patients with culture-confirmed pulmonary MDR-TB who received treatment at Pusan National University Hospital (PNUH) between January 2010 and July 2018 were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were divided into two groups according to the first institution they visited [patients who were transferred to PNUH after diagnosis of MDR-TB (Group A) and patients who were initially diagnosed with TB at PNUH (Group B)].

Results

A total of 100 patients were included (53 in Group A and 47 in Group B). The percentage of patients in whom line probe assays (LPAs) for isoniazid

SUBMITTER: Jo EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6483266 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature