Drug-resistant tuberculosis surveillance attempts to detect and treat drug-resistant as early possible in order avoid transmission, illness, mortality among people who are afflicted. In Kenya, the delay starting RR TB treatment has not been established, its relationship outcomes is unknown. To investigate between delayed therapy commencement results Kenyan patients enrolled January 2010 June 20...

BACKGROUND In limited resource settings, sputum smear conversion at the end of the intensive phase of tuberculosis treatment is an indicator not only of patients' response to treatment, but also of anti-tuberculosis program performance. The objective of this study was to identify factors associated to sputum smear non-conversion at the end of the intensive phase of treatment, and the effect of ...

In five patients, a 46-year-old Surinamese man, a 45-year-old Dutch barkeeper, a 41-year-old woman from Eritrea, and an 18-year-old Afghan woman and her 43-year-old mother, tuberculosis was diagnosed and treated after a considerable delay. Such a late diagnosis and subsequent treatment is not uncommon for tuberculosis as the symptoms, physical examination, laboratory tests, imaging techniques a...